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Re:Detailed audit of Voatz' voting app confirms security flaws by spatley on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:46PM (#22640343)
The only reason to use nonstandard crypto is that you think you are smarter than the entire crypto industry. ProTip: you are never smarter than the entire crypto industry.
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Re:Detailed audit of Voatz' voting app confirms security flaws by kache_ on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:53PM (#22640423)
You forgot the other reason: backdoors
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Re:Detailed audit of Voatz' voting app confirms security flaws by bnonhacker on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:49PM (#22640384)
Fully agree. That's the primary issue associated with bringing a piece of critical civic infrastructure, such as voting, into the digital domain. Who builds, maintains and secures the tech? Certainly not the government. The govt only acts as a collective entity to support and promote strong tech-driven markets (it should at least in theory). I do hope that more individuals in the crypto industry get involved politically because of their technical wherewithal.
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