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.
> “I said they’re DRIVEN BY SOFTWARE.”
Ascii and other character encodings are elements of processing.
The only processing in a blockchain device is an encryption encoding of the vote.
What you seem to be trying to shoehorn here is changing ‘00’ to ‘01’ at the input device, and you’ve alluded recently to random number software to pull off a ‘here and there’ scheme to steal an election.
The problem for you to explain is how you pull this off in a device where there is no processing other than encryption.
You would have to change the hardware or install new hardware inside the device. Both of these are impossible.
Changing the microcode on internal hardware means you would lose the encryption key, so you’ve destroyed the blockchain device’s functioning with the blockchain. You would have to resort to doing that at the OEM facility and then somehow pass 3rd party testing. And there could be multiple independent 3rd party testers.
Installing new hardware in a device that can be as small as your thumb means you either destroy the device or you have to connect to the devices hardware bus and end up destroying that too.
Taking apart the touchscreen interface and disconnecting it from the blockchain encryption-transmission component to install another component to do what you say to do would entail opening the blockchain device without authorization causing it to disable itself.
> “There HAS to be software in the device. Otherwise you can’t display buttons or record clicks.”
There is no software executable in a blockchain device other than encryption. What you are referring to is a representation of a ballot on a screen with touchscreen coordinates to send the voter’s choice to the internal blockchain component. Such a representation could be a conformable pdf or jpeg file that has no physical connection or wiring with the touchscreen coordinates.
And touchscreens are not even necessary. A blank paper ballot could be encased in glass on each voting booth wall with instructions to push 1 for Trump and 2 for whoever on a firmly affixed and hardened keypad.
Touchscreen images are shown on a screen to indicate where signals can be initiated. The picture representation of that touchscreen has no executable to drive anything. It is simply an image overlay covering the screen’s input signaling coordinates. The elections offices or polling stations will have procedures to test the images against the signaling, e.g. pressing ‘Trump’ results in a vote for Trump, etc. There is no software to change anything.
> “And screwing with your blockchain device is simple: FRAUD-ENCRYPTION-TOO LATE TO FIX ANYTHING.”
Explain how you get the ‘fraud’ in the configuration without software executables and without hardware changes because the blockchain device does not have software executables nor does it allow hardware changes.
> “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.”
What have you explained? You commented that blockchain tech doesn’t stop fraud at the polling station check-in table. And it has been made clear to you that no one suggested that blockchain tech would solve paper fraud, it will solve only electronic fraud.
> “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.”
A whole bunch? What does ‘bunch’ mean? What OS? What laptop? What RJ45 jack? You are mixing laptop jargon with a simple blockchain device. The two things are very different.
A screen ribbon is not essential. There are infrared options available for the internals of the device.
Once the bit encoding is present on the input port of the encryption accumulator, the encryption generator hashes the input code and transmits it at once. There is no recording stored, there is no storage component.
To get the fraud that you are trying to describe would entail changing the hardware internals of the device or changing the image overlay loaded into the touchscreen. But a fraudulent image would cause every vote to be in error. The poll staff will see that easily. So it’s not going to happen.
The rest of your comments has been addressed by the above.