Everything posted by Hedgehog
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It's a bit more than encryption. For example, here is a message encoded in base64 with "256-bit" encryption: U2FsdGVkX19t/RLxDa2pmcx3EdBqAaWYXyZ4H7YiU2GSssatR+64j9tc/IHI2DOA However, only I know the contents of the message. As a result, it's pointless. There has to be a central authority to count and verify votes. And regarding Estonia, its electronic voting system seems to be incredibly flawed. Can you dismiss any claims made here? I mean some encryption algorithms are set up to handle a digital signature. Whats wrong with using those? All voting would require is verification of the identity of the sender and that the message isn't tampered with by a man in the middle attack Well, in that case, Diffie-Hellman itself is way outdated and it isn't hard at all to find the discrete logarithm in a decent amount of time (still NP, but not too bad). But yeah, that's what SSL/TSL is. Each website you visit that uses SSL has a public key and you use that to encrypt your data. As great as SSL is (and you should absolutely use it whenever you can), it only secures the communication. It doesn't secure the client, it doesn't secure the server, and it definitely doesn't secure the user. You still have to worry about phishing, CSRF, database breaches, malicious browser extensions, and cards literally being lost, stolen, or destroyed. You can secure the server pretty well, and you can secure the communication, but you will never be able to secure the client.
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I know that. My point was that millions of bank accounts remain intact despite not being 100% secure. Oh well, I'm not really in a spot to be able to watch Randox's video so I'll give that a look when I get home. I'd like to hear some other suggestions for increasing voter participation though. They remain intact because nobody cares. There are better ways to make money with cyber crime. There's a pretty strong incentive to rig an election, though
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I went to Nebraska's Democratic caucus last weekend, and there was an insane number of people my age there. Like, hundreds of them, probably. It's a little biased, because I'm in the district where the college is, so probably a lot of the people who live on campus were registered for that area, but the young voter turnout was pretty good in the district my friend went to a few miles away as well. Though, yes, you're right, it could absolutely be better. We obviously need to make a way to vote online without having the results able to be manipulated. That would be terrible. Voting legitimacy is incredibly important and the security implications of an online voting infrastructure on both the front-end and back-end is simply too wide an area for attackers, domestic and foreign. To be brutally honest, of all the agencies, only the NSA could potentially be trusted with such a task, but elections (and citizen security, especially) are not their responsibility. The only data I truly trust on the internet would be data I encrypted offline with an incredibly long key (at least 256 bits of entropy) using open-source and secure software with a tried-and-true encryption method (such as GnuPG with AES), and even then I wouldn't trust the reliability of said data over long periods of time (e.g., data corruption). Even my own computer has full-disk encryption (with GELI and an equally complex key) and whenever I do not have immediate access to my computer I turn it off (if I leave my home, if I go to sleep, if I'm outside for more than a minute or two...). In honesty, I feel I can only trust myself, and sometimes that's difficult. I figure that if we can have bank accounts online without everything going to hell then we should be able to have online elections as well without too much trouble. If we give every registered voter a unique ID key, then the most we have to worry about is stolen ID's right? Fake votes wouldn't be able to happen because you wouldn't be able to vote with a non-existent key. Multiple votes with the same key would be easy to catch and prevent. Really this is the best way I can think of to increase voter turnout. Your bank account isn't remotely secure
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"I want a girlfriend/boyfriend", and other such relationship advice
Why are they forcing you to use Spring That's evil
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Why are you so mean to the Americans here, lol? It's not very nice to be that condescending (it doesn't really look like a joke, but if I'm wrong then I apologise) - are you going to be like that when you go travelling? Friday night exams woo (better than Saturday night I guess) on Human Physiology Bad headache and I'm pretty mad at my bank for not giving me access to my bank account since my card was stolen a whole month ago. It doesn't even register as mean to me. It just seems like little brother syndrome
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I don't get that kind of response though. Black people in America always seem to be so proud of being black, their heritage, etc. But the moment you ask them something actually significant, or meaningful, they find it offensive. I understand what you're saying, because even i wouldn't ask a black person from America what tribe they're from. I just don't understand why it's an offensive thing to ask. Do white people get offended if they're asked what their roots are? I get that a nationality isn't a tribe, but it kind of is. So if someone asks me if i'm half English/Scottish/German/whatever, do i get offended? Should i? Just doesn't make sense to me. "I'm proud to be black/indian, but don't ask me anything about it ever." nationality isn't a tribe but ethnic group is. Europe has several ethnic groups Slavic - most of eastern europe German - germany, france, england, italy Celtic - welsh, irish, scottish Greek Latin basque etc. middle east has several arab jewish persian armenian turkish kurdish etc. You forgot that most Scandinavians are also Germanic.And one large European group at least was left out, us Finno-Ugrians. Call me Slavic and I'll punch you. I'm Hungarian so I feel you
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Funny story, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah played a show in the basement of the venue where I saw Failure at the same time, so I could hear them playing between songs
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Miss hottie 2016 Quaterfinal 4
I am not happy with the options here
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Miss hottie 2016 Quaterfinal 3
3/3 woohoo
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AOTY so far
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Dredg's worst album was produced by Dan the Automator, which is a shame cuz his other stuff is pretty good P good electronic album released not too long ago
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We always had a bunch of protesters (and people passing out fliers as well) in one plaza on my college campus. You'd be walking to class, and 2 or 3 people would try to talk to you by the time you reached the other side. I think it's best if you just put your headphones in and don't even acknowledge their existence. I'm pretty sure their entire MO is to get you to argue with them, so that it draws more attention to them. If you ignore them, they'll move on to somebody else. You kinda feel like a dick for intentionally ignoring someone, but at least you won't get harassed.