Thanks to deoetdoctrinae for the ping!
Posted on 05/07/2019 1:49:59 PM PDT by dayglored
Thanks to deoetdoctrinae for the ping!
The best way to corrupt elections is to both centralize them, and put them on a standardized system
Don’t trust microsquish one inch.
Open source means anyone can change the code and recompile it.
Not just no, but hell no! Blue Screen of Election Death?
Get an ID.
Microsoft?
Same company that has the most hole-filled OS in the multiverse?
Same company whose OS is specifically constructed to get data from you, no matter how much you try to disable that data collection?
Same company that built the multiverse’s worse browser for decades?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
I don’t trust MicroThief either.
If you believe MS’s claim about ElectionGuard then you probably believe in global warming too.
MS needs to put money where mouth is and offer $1 billion reward for Russian and Chinese hackers who hack it.
“Because everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, trusts Microsoft.”
It’s open source, so anyone can see the underlying code.
I think this is move in the right direction. So, naturally, Democrats and RINOs will oppose or ignore it.
One danger of fraud I think is if the system can be accessed to make a list of people who have not voted. This might make it easier for stolen voter registrations to be used to vote fraudulently. But open source is a good way to go. Right now we have no way of knowing whether the systems being used are vulnerable to hacking and voter fraud.
There needs to be accountability at every level, and there needs to be a clear chain of custody from ballots to counting.
The software can be perfect, but it won’t stop fraud without other commonsense measures such as requiring voter ID.
I think we need to park cars with facial recognition software and cameras at major polling locations that are close. Those coming and going should be recorded and compared to see if they may be going to multiple polling locations.
More security measures are needed for absentee ballots.
They do not, historically, do SECURITY well. More than a decade after Unix showed how you could secure an operating system, Microsoft was still putting random 3rd-party drivers in the kernel, and attaching executable files to emails that would launch on opening. They've gotten better in the last 10 years, but only grudgingly, and with uneven results.
Why in the world would US Citizens entrust the security of their only voice in their government -- their precious VOTE -- to a private company that demonstrably does not have their privacy as a priority?
Frankly, I'd much rather have a real security company, or better, a consortium of competing real security companies, do it.
Accountability.
Traceability.
Reliability.
TRUST.
Not Microsoft, not Apple, not Google, not Yahoo, not Amazon, ...
Maybe the NSA. Hell, they already have all that data anyway... :-)
True, but... I mean this kindly, but seriously:
When was the last time YOU inspected any open-source program source, in enough detail to catch subtle security holes?Me neither.
I love open source stuff, but ultimately, 99.9999% of us rely on "somebody else" to read and analyze the open source code for security problems.
Just sayin', visibility doesn't guarantee either correctness or security.
Why not? What could go wrong? lol
Yeah, right. What could possibly go wrong? Only thing worse is if you let Fakebook count the votes and certify the winner.
From the guys who gave us Windows ME
Microsoft’s record on security is not good.
And you are going to believe the code they show you is the code compiled and installed on the machines?
Or if someone does a last minute update?
Ok what is their liability if stuff goes wrong?
They are not an elections, or even a computer, security company.
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