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Dragon, Interdimensional Wizard, Gamer, Hopeful Writer, Technologist, Mostly Fictional Being: Confirm nothing; Deny Everything... -==(UDIC)==- / -=={GC}==-
PadreSJThe Vaticats have officially moved from Twitter to YouTube.
Here's some crunchy monches to clear your timeline. 😇
Daily Vaticats! (April 24, 2023)
Matt BlazeSeveral people calling me naive for suggesting that election security might be improving.
I’ve been working on voting for over 20 years. Compared with when I started, we’ve made *phenomenal* progress. Paperless DREs are all but extinct. We’ve developed formal requirements like software independence, with practical techniques for achieving them (such as RLAs). Officials and even vendors no longer dismiss security concerns out of hand.
Still work to do, but my experience has led me to optimism.
Not one, but two cases this week of innocent people being shot simply for being lost and mistakenly approaching the wrong house.
Were those the "good guys with a gun" we keep hearing about?
For Trump to fire a long-time employee for doing his job, while the FG was in the midst of a tantrum about an election that he KNEW he had lost, just to make sure that there was nobody to open the doors to the White House when the duly-elected POTUS arrived...
This is the pettiness that defines Donald Trump.
@MirrorMirror Pretty much no. Almost all the major US vendors provide a range of election products, including bad ones (DREs that preclude effective election audits) and good ones (paper scanners, which allow it).
Focusing on the brand is misguided. All precinct equipment is vulnerable to malware and tampering. The question is whether it can be detected and mitigated, which is a function of architecture, not code.
Also, any serious discussion of election security has to grapple with two simultaneous realities:
- there's no evidence that any US election outcome has ever been altered by hacking
- there are real, exploitable vulnerabilities in many parts of our election infrastructure
I've written a bit on what these vulnerabilities are and how to fix them, See, e.g., this brief article:
https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/4.2-p505-522-Blaze.pdf
Those who follow me on The Bad Place have heard me repeat this a thousand times, but once more won't hurt.
Election security is incredibly complex, full of seemingly impossible tradeoffs. But disinformation about supposed "rigged" elections is perhaps the most serious threat to election integrity today.
The best defense is to learn how elections actualy work! Becoming a poll worker is a great way to do that
Also, this National Academies study is a terrific resource:
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25120/securing-the-vote-protecting-american-democracy
There have been many actors who have played Batman. Most of them are respected for putting their own spin on the character.
But, for me, no actor is Batman like Kevin Conroy.
From Batman:TAS, Batman Beyond, Superman: TAS, JL, JLU, & all the movies that came with it, HIS is the voice I remember as Batman.
While it's always difficult to act behind a mask, he only had his voice to make us believe.
And he did it unbelievably well.
Rest well, Dark Knight.
