Richard Stallman has been warning us for years about the dangers of voting machines.
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Looks like the dude from Independence Day!
I've had issues with his leftist beliefs, but he was always spot on about software.
A literal commie, but at least less insufferable than the commies in the government.
It helps that software is the one place where communism works, since you can actually copy shit infinitely for free, and his autistic brain only thinks about tech 24/7.
He is a commie, but he has conflicting beliefs would would limit the extent he would implement it - he’d never force or be violent...he’s also a cry baby...search for video of when when he lost his passport.
I think voting machines could potentially work, there just needs to be transparency. Open source hardware and software that can maybe be verified with some kind of checksum or something. Users need to be able to verify nothing has been tampered with. The point Stallman makes here about the problems presented in practice is good though. You might design all kinds of precautions and it all falls apart in practice when some loopole you didn't think of gets exploited.
I don't think the issue is SW for voting machines per say, as much as it is the typical SW developer mindset does not lend itself to developing voting machines that should be used.
To give an example, lets say we were to split the voting machine in two parts (for some reason). Which of the following would make sense to use for the physical link between the two:
Conventional logic would dictate ethernet as it is fairly easy to set up something on both sides to talk back and forth. Next would be USB 3.0 since it is commonly available. I would argue RS232 is better as it has a limited data rate (<20000 bits per second). If someone compromises one side of the machine, the likelihood of successfully compromising the other side is lower due to the much lower data rate.
(To be clear: this is the opinion of someone who uses UDP because TCP is too slow, so take it with a grain of salt).
It's crazy because for years leftists were "sounding the alarm" about voting machines with no paper records. John Oliver did a whole episode on how easy they were to hack.....All memory holed now. It's pure insanity.
At defcon last year they even held a competition for voter machine hacking.
Richard's comments about Epstein, and response to them. His resignation. by LaCorte News.
Amid much shoddy journalism, LaCorte did an excellent job at digging into the story and getting at the truth. I admire Richard.
Infrastructure for integrity of government, elections, society: Wiki, Chat, and More.
Richard Stallman resigns from MIT over Epstein comments
about misrepresentation of his comments
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