'It's easier to hack an election than eBay': confessions of a Belarusian hacker

Re:'It's easier to hack an election than eBay': confessions ... by wongarsu on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:57PM (#13988878)

Of all the ways to influence an election, revealing true facts seems to be by far the best for the Democratic process.

Of course it would be better if hacking wasn't part of that. And you can argue that foreign influence in the election is a bad thing. But the American people really have no standing to complain about that, not with all the well known instances where the US meddling in other countries elections.

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Re:'It's easier to hack an election than eBay': confessions ... by tdb7893 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:03PM (#13990576)

I agree that facts are good the problem is when facts are revealed very asymmetrically. Let's pretend you have two candidates, one where you really only know about him from his voting record and public statements and the other where you know everything that they and their associates have ever done. My guess is that the fist candidate will be more likely to win. I think that if that asymmetry is too prevalent it gives an unfair advantage to one side and in my view that weakens the democracy.

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