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Voting Software

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There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.
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caffeinatedhominid
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Yep.
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tante
2252 days ago
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xkcd on voting software is spot-on
Berlin/Germany
wmorrell
2253 days ago
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Hazmat suit, too. Just to be safe.
rjstegbauer
2254 days ago
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Amen!! Paper... paper... paper. It's simple. It's trivial to recount. Everyone already knows how to use it. It's cheap. It's verifiable. Just... use... paper.
ianso
2254 days ago
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Yes!
Brussels
ChrisDL
2254 days ago
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accurate.
New York
reconbot
2255 days ago
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Legitimately share this comic with anyone who represents you in government.
New York City
cheerfulscreech
2255 days ago
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Truth.
USA
acdha
2255 days ago
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This is very true despite decades of failing to make progress
Washington, DC
Groxx
2255 days ago
And then we go and make Electron, and discover that the graph has a negative Y axis.
jth
2255 days ago
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XKCD Nails Secure Electronic Voting.
Saint Paul, MN, USA
skorgu
2255 days ago
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100% accurate.
jsled
2255 days ago
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endorsed; co-signed; it. me. &c.

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South Burlington, Vermont
alt_text_bot
2255 days ago
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There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.
alt_text_at_your_service
2255 days ago
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There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.
srsly
2255 days ago
Seconding this policy ^^

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CodeSOD: The Uninstalling Installer

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From a technical standpoint, Digital Rights Management is a WTF- it’s a crypto system which requires the user to have access to the key, and simply hopes to make getting the key out of the device too cumbersome to be worth a pirate’s time. The shoddy technical reasoning behind it sometimes leads to shoddy technical implementations.

Benjamin tried to help a friend install a DRM client on their machine. The installer continuously failed, and perhaps foolishly, Benjamin decided to run it with elevated permissions. After restoring from backup, Benjamin cracked open the installer and looked at some of the shell scripts that it ran.

#! /bin/sh

rm -rf "$3/$2"
rm -rf "$4/$2"
tar -C "$3" -xjf "$1"
if [ -e "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor" ]; then
   chmod 755 "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor"
   chmod u+s "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor"
   chown root:wheel "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor"
fi
if [ -e "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor32" ]; then
   chmod 755 "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor32"
   chmod u+s "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor32"
   chown root:wheel "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor32"
fi
if [ -e "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor64" ]; then
   chmod 755 "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor64"
   chmod u+s "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor64"
   chown root:wheel "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitor64"
fi
if [ -e "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitorKill" ]; then
   chmod 755 "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitorKill"
   chmod u+s "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitorKill"
   chown root:wheel "$3/$2/Contents/MacOS/DcpMonitorKill"
fi
echo "DONE"

A few logging messages made it clear exactly what had gone wrong- the binary which was supposed to trigger the shell script had forgotten to pass any parameters. rm -rf "$3/$2", after variable substitution, executed rm -rf "/", which is a wonderfully concise way to ruin someone’s day.

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File Extensions

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I have never been lied to by data in a .txt file which has been hand-aligned.
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tekvax
3933 days ago
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hahahahah nice!
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FarrelBuch
3937 days ago
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This is akin to the domain name from which an email was sent
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
oliverzip
3944 days ago
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A measure of meta trust
Sydney, Balmain, Hornsby.
miah
3958 days ago
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Cite your sources: this image is a PNG.
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DomreiRoam
3958 days ago
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yay for tex
edrichdelange
3958 days ago
I wonder how many people are thinking that .tex is a badly named .txt file.
Covarr
3958 days ago
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Of note: This image is a .png file.
East Helena, MT
PaulPritchard
3957 days ago
I no longer trust this image
jtgrimes
3959 days ago
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Alt text: I have never been lied to by data in a .txt file which has been hand-aligned.
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eraycollins
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Galilean Moons

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I'm SO glad I escaped. They almost had me caught in their weird ... thing.
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colaco
3962 days ago
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Alt-text: "I'm SO glad I escaped. They almost had me caught in their weird ... thing."
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saucistophe
3961 days ago
Think there is a pun on "SO glad" and "GLaDOS"?
eraycollins
3962 days ago
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Lot of good science here.
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