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Vote!

Published
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Phil Crissman
on November 6, 2006
in Asides
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This is a US-centric post, but anyways — November 7th is election day for the USA.

So, if that means you, please go on out and vote! :)

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  1. 1 mrben
    November 7, 2006 at 4:39 am

    And watch ‘Hacking Democracy’ once you’re done ;)

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7236791207107726851&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en-CA

  2. 2 Gapp
    November 7, 2006 at 10:05 am

    Yay for representative democracy!!!

  3. 3 Phil Crissman
    November 7, 2006 at 11:42 am

    I’m checking that out, mrben, but I have to tell you — I think a lot of the hype around this sort of thing is primarily FUD; someone can accuse me of being partisan here, but I’m not going to try to argue that point — the show does point out that there are people on both sides of the political aisle who are suspicious of the software. However, just saying that a particular piece of software is potientially hackable or exploitable is not news — I’ve yet to hear of a large piece of software that has not had holes.

    Perhaps we need to get Theo de Raadt to oversee the project? ;)

    I have a hard time envisioning a system that would please everyone. The only thing that would possibly be foolproof might be an Open Source voting software (so that anyone could agree that the software itself was “fair”), and then some sort of process to ensure that this software was actually being used. Even then, you would get a lot of FUD by people who don’t understand software saying that an OSS solution is not secure either…

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