[freework]

> https://xkcd.com/2030/

I really hate this attitude. This is a very common belief held by non-technical people. They believe that it is impossible to have perfect security, and that every single piece of software ever built is either already hacked, or waiting to be hacked by future hackers.

I truly believe one day a cryptographic voting system will be rolled out, but it's a long way away, not because for technical reasons, but for cultural reasons.

[2023throwawayy]

Did you just call Randall Munroe a non-technical person?

> They believe that it is impossible to have perfect security, and that every single piece of software ever built is either already hacked, or waiting to be hacked by future hackers.

Yes. I do believe that.

[gjvc]

every single piece of software ever built is either already hacked, or waiting to be hacked by future hackers

...or it's not worth hacking -- this is what your statement leaves out.

Nobody is going to be searching for bugs in cat(1) when there are bigger prizes out there.

[mandmandam]

> one day

There's the keyword.

And that day is not today.

Paper is fine. Let's use paper.

These voting machines that can be tracelessly hacked with a pen drive are terrifying, and no, there isn't enough awareness of that fact among people.

[jl2718]

What do you propose to do with paper? Mostly it just gets fed into a machine. Is it impossible to vote twice with paper? Is it impossible to throw away paper? Is it impossible to miscount paper?

Paper doesn't impart any security property by itself. Can paper be used in a secure system? Maybe. Can a machine be used in a secure system? Maybe. Is all paper secure? No. Is any machine secure? No. Same for blockchain, mobile, internet, satellite, and ouija boards.

[mandmandam]

Do you have credentials or sources for these odd claims and false equivalences?

Do you have them on paper?