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Re:Edward Snowden says a report critical to an NSA lawsuit is authentic
on Monday November 05, 2018 @06:10AM (#18381410)
His passport was revoked while he was in Hong Kong. Somehow he was allowed to board the flight to Moscow with a revoked passport, but not the flight from Moscow.
Re:Studies Show That Pigs Are More Intelligent Than Dogs
on Saturday October 27, 2018 @10:08PM (#18318769)
That's not saying much.
Re:DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure [pdf]
on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:36PM (#18117029)
The first new attack described in last year's report was that you could DoS a machine by removing its CPU.
Which, sure, is something to think about. But it's not what I think people are imagining when you say "voting machine hacking."
Re:DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure [pdf]
on Monday October 01, 2018 @03:45PM (#18116112)
This isn't a remote vulnerability, btw. The attach involves picking the lock a and inserting a device to a parallel port.
Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report...
on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:45PM (#18096445)
I do.
But a non-hacked vote tabulating machine will still do the job better than non-hacked humans.
Add a high enough percentage of random hand audits of the machine but counts to ensure they're functioning correctly, and you should get a reasonably high confidence that you have the most accurate count.
Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report...
on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:15PM (#18095058)
Perhaps because counting tens of thousands of near-identical pieces of paper is exactly the sort of repetitive, robotic task we've entrusted machines to perform more accurately than humans since at least the 1940s.
Re:Steve Jobs licensed Amazon’s one-click patent for $1M in one phone ...
on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @02:10PM (#18017709)
Billionaire sticks it to the Man by carefully following his rules and getting brand new Mercedes every six months.