Forget emails. US voting machines are ridiculously insecure. I wrote once about one with hardwired password "admin".https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/27/by-november-russian-hackers-could-target-voting-machines/ …
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Replying to @zeynep
The provenance of the hack is interesting and all and all but biggest scandal HOW LUDICROUS security of critical stuff actually is.
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Replying to @zeynep
Look, it's doable. It's a choice. SLOT MACHINES have better security than voting machines. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/opinion/volkswagen-and-the-era-of-cheating-software.html …pic.twitter.com/fa2912gN8b
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requirements for slot machines are different from those for voting. theory shows us that secure voting machines are impossible
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And testing methodologies from slot machines would not guarantee secure elections, as per messages we exchanged months ago
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first and foremost: unlinkability between agent and action is not a mandatory property of slot machines :)
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Well, not for twitter but even there, option: cryptographic authentication of having been counted without being IDed.
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Something like the early digicash model; collusion between two out of three parties allows verification etc.
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But I am not saying let's just turn voting machines into slot machines Just an example of an actually regulated system.
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