I wrote on the urgency of stepping away from computerized voting before this—but wow. Yeah. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/campaign-stops/the-election-wont-be-rigged-but-it-could-be-hacked.html …https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/765515485706330113 …
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Elections need to be transparent, unhackable, audited & resistant to sowing of mistrust in their results. We *have* very workable solutions.
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In Ireland we still use pencil and paper - electronic voting was tried, and rejected. If it ain't broke...
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Fully agree on this! Open source helps pressuring better design decisions re security, but provides no verifiability or auditability
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@dfaranha I'm all for open-source software when appropriate. The idea that it is some 100% proof against hacks is .. simply not true. - Show replies
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#blockchain or any other (GPG…) crypto method requires disclosing all votes, not everyone would like this anyway.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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it'd be good if everyone had a Ph.D in quantum physics (transistors, cpus) and CS and crypto…
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Secure, reliable voting requires solving problems that are beyond the state of the art of software. Open source doesn't change that.
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Plus, it needs to be easy to trust by non-experts.
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Actually the blockchain is a lot worse than that; you'd need to trust anyone with money to buy serious processing power.
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