petersr

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[–] petersr 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] petersr 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Question: How would the terrorists ensure it hurts the people they want and not their own?

[–] petersr 1 points 1 week ago

Came to the comments just to look for this.

[–] petersr 4 points 1 week ago

I actually agree. I loved playing Siege and think they did a great job handling micro transactions. But couldn't resist posting a meme.

[–] petersr 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] petersr 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Does Hitler have any memorable quotes though?

[–] petersr 2 points 2 weeks ago

I stand corrected

[–] petersr -5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Something about aesthetics without a single image in the post?

[–] petersr 3 points 2 weeks ago

But let me get this straight - this requires access to the voting machine in a way that allows installing software that somehow intervene with the existing voting software.

And perhaps I am naive here, but I would assume that such a voting machine runs either

  • custom firmware / embedded operating system
  • custom version of Windows
  • custom or special purpose Linux
  • Windows in kiosk mode so normal users can't access other application than the voting software nor OS settings.

As a minimum I would assume kiosk mode, but to be honest I would expect much more than that from a voting system, including tightened security and no or very limited interoperability between the voting software and other software on the machine. And I am not seeing any nasty malicious system-level code in the repo.

And yes, as you highlight, it is hard to buy this chain of events and yes, voting machines are a bad idea. As a technical person it sounds like conspiracy theorizing.

[–] petersr 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But.. But.. The stick is unfoldable!

[–] petersr 5 points 2 weeks ago

I guess you are getting downvoted because you come of a little aggressive, but yeah, I also don't see the real danger with these scripts by themselves.

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