Re:Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense
by jejeuei73737 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:32PM
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You are out there every day pushing back against anonymous voting then?
Who voted for which candidate is secret and we rely on counts that aren’t broadcast live
Re:Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense
by c3534l on Thursday October 05, 2017 @05:46PM
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Anonymous doesn't mean secret. If the governor of Ohio says his people want Trump over Hilary, just trust him, you don't need to know how he knows would you? I mean, I don't trust unauditable electronic voting machines. I certainly wouldn't trust someone who couldn't even point to the machine he got his info from.
Re:Russian Hackers Stole NSA Data on U.S. Cyber Defense
by linkregister on Friday October 06, 2017 @12:31AM
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Much of the voting system is an exercise of trust. The most reliable part of it, besides the fact that election officers are publicly known and accountable, is that officers from both parties oversee each voting center. Your trust is that the adversarial nature of the political parties will raise alarms if the ballots are tampered with.
So in other words, no “verifiable“ proof at all, just rumors, hearsay, and unbacked assertions.
> Until then we have to trust the US intelligence community.
Sorry, no. Their success rate and overall trustworthiness is abysmal, let alone it's foolish to trust secret data even if it weren't the case.