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Re:Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office until 2030 by slashdev on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:41PM (#36543494)
As a software engineer and a huge fan of technology in general, I think electronic voting machines are the devil. Digital information is too easy to alter. Good old-fashioned paper elections are a well vetted technology that we know how to use and can be implemented and audited well. Electronic voting, not so much. It's not just important to have a free election, it's important that everyone has faith that it was a free election. Because if people no longer believe in the process, democracy will die. So it has to be transparent, audited by neutral and external parties, and it has to be not just be impossible to tamper with, it has to make everyone believe that it is impossible.

I hope the will of the people prevails over the supreme court in Brazil eventually.

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Re:Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office until 2030 by leon_theremin on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:35AM (#36547321)
All US CPUs are backdoored by Silicon Valley. Any data or computation can be changed, deleted or stolen. It uses radio, works even without Net access, including for BR voting machines.

There will be no computing freedom until the silicon trojans embedded in all US designed CPUs are removed.

If you want freedom, you will have to ensure that no unseen radiation is enabling remote control of your devices.

Ask me anything about BadBIOS and hardware trojans.

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Re:Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office until 2030 by slashdev on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:32AM (#36549418)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Can you point me at it?
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Re:Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office until 2030 by Arnt on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:43AM (#36547748)
You might be interested in this: https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/indian-election-machines

One size does not fit all (threat models).

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