> “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.
Processing == software. That’s the same thing.
No the machine has to have lots more processing/ software than that. You’ve got a touchscreen display to run, data to cache because you’re probably not going to get the entire ballot on one screen, plus there’s some sort of communication protocol going on to send your encrypted data.
That’s no shoehorn, that’s SOFTWARE, or processing if you insist. Because it’s not a 00 or a 01 it’s a “screen detected contract at these coordinates” and then you’ve got to do something with that.
There MUST be processing other than encryption. How else are you putting buttons on the screen and getting votes?
Nobody is losing the encryption because of the software. Yes the OEM facility where the software is being written would be the place monkeying with it, just like in current voting machine, and passing testing is easy (I already explained to you one of MANY ways to do that).
Don’t have to install new hardware. And the device isn’t going to be smaller than your thumb, kind of hard to use a touchscreen that small.
It’s not just a representation of the ballot, it has to DO something. People have to be able to push on parts of that JPG and register votes. There HAS TO BE SOFTWARE to do that. You’re insistence otherwise is laughable.
Hardened keypads are still driven by software, as I already explained to you.
No the picture most certainly DOES have an executable to drive things. Just like the buttons below where I’m typing now. There is executable code that happens when I click on Spell or Post, if there wasn’t nothing would happen when the get pushed on, much like the grey space to the right.
There must be software executables. And that’s where the fraud lives.
A “whole bunch” means there’s a mother board and chips and long term storage that has things on it that drive the keyboard, screen and JR45. None of that is jargon, that’s HOW COMPUTERS WORK. Including your precious blockchain devices. “Devices” are COMPUTERS. Just like you smart phone, or TV or even microwave (yes, your microwave has a computer in it, these days probably a second or third gen pentium).
The screen has to connect to the motherboard somehow. And it ain’t through infrared.
Of course there’s a storage component. Without storage you have no data to encrypt nor any encrypted data to transmit. And I’m pointing out that data is where the fraud happens.
Nope, to get fraud all you need is the company that writes the software that drives the input device to be corrupt. Same thing you need now.