> “The touchscreen is going to be driven by software.”
That’s not true. Touchscreens are input signal devices. They do not store inputs.
> “You don’t have to flip every vote. Just plug a little generation of a random number into your button processing loop”
Already addressed in a previous post to you here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3468215/posts?page=81#81
A random number device would require software and memory. No such software or hardware exists inside a compliant blockchain device.
The blockchain device is simple: INPUT-ENCRYPTION-TRANSMISSION.
To do what you are proposing would require a massive conspiracy, a rewiring and back-fitting of thousands of machines. Not going to happen because of blockchain configuration and auditing, and because OEMs would face prison.
> “You don’t need chips inbetween the input and transmission. you do all the tampering on the input. It’s easy. Software has to run those button, and that software whatever the programmers want it to.”
The output of a software executable is carried in bit patterns along data buslines. The bits would have to hit a hard interface at some point. No such interface exists between input and transmission hardware. To do what you are describing entails hardwire back-fitting the device. Not going to happen.
> “Do you have a single manufacturer? No massive conspiracy necessary. Just one programmer.”
There is nothing programmable on a blockchain device.
> “Only reason they’re rare and isolated now is that so many districts are too cheap to switch to the fancy machines. most of America is still coloring circles or punching holes. Of course those go through a card reader.”
That has nothing to with implementing blockchain compliant devices. If anything, it should compel implementation of blockchain compliant devices.
I didn’t say they stored inputs. I said they’re DRIVEN BY SOFTWARE. Just like your keyboard. Depending on your OS you’re about 8 mouse clicks away from switching your keyboard to dvorak, after you did that every time you pushed the E on your keyboard you’d get a . , unless you had shift down then it would be > . Your keyboard doesn’t store inputs, but it is driven by software. Just like a touchscreen.
There HAS to be software in the device. Otherwise you can’t display buttons or record clicks. You’re really going off into crazy land here.
And screwing with your blockchain device is simple: FRAUD-ENCRYPTION-TOO LATE TO FIX ANYTHING.
I already explained to you why it doesn’t take a massive conspiracy. People committing voter fraud already face prison so clearly THAT’S not stopping anybody.
Of course there’s a hard interface in there. Do you actually know anything about how computers WORK? There’s a whole bunch of hard interface inbetween input and transmission. That’s where the OS lives, and the software to drive both the input and the transmission. You need to crack open a laptop and look at all the stuff in there between the screen cable and the RJ45 jack.
If there’s nothing programmable then how is it going to know the list of candidates? Hell if there’s nothing programmable how will it display anything? How will it be part of a blockchain? Really, you’re going deeper and deeper into fantasy land trying to make this system work. Of course it’s programmable. Time you started THINKING more and DECLARING less, because your declarations have gotten down right silly.