sorry but this is written like the writer does not know computers.
sure, lets make an unverifiable blackbox digital system for making digital passes that is somehow trustworthy, because… why exactly? oh yeah because the news said on the TV it is safe and secure, so it must be so!
and sure, lets allow voting with the unverifiable blackbox digital system, and lets just pretend that your vote cannot be forged at dozens of places on the way to the vote counters.
Everybody should have for free the means to authenticate online and do so anonymously when needed.
anonymous authentication is a contradiction.
We live in a digital world, we need the tools to evolve in it.
no amount of tech will fix the problems of the unverifiable blackbox digital systems. you as a vote counter can trace the paper ballot from the booth to the counting event, and you can be assured the submitted ballots cannot be modified without someone going to the ballot box and opening it. but none of that can be said about computers. you can’t inspect the electrical signals, you wouldn’t be able to do that even with an utopistic fully open hardware computer.
sorry but this is written like the writer does not know computers.
sure, lets make an unverifiable blackbox digital system for making digital passes that is somehow trustworthy, because… why exactly? oh yeah because the news said on the TV it is safe and secure, so it must be so!
and sure, lets allow voting with the unverifiable blackbox digital system, and lets just pretend that your vote cannot be forged at dozens of places on the way to the vote counters.
anonymous authentication is a contradiction.
no amount of tech will fix the problems of the unverifiable blackbox digital systems. you as a vote counter can trace the paper ballot from the booth to the counting event, and you can be assured the submitted ballots cannot be modified without someone going to the ballot box and opening it. but none of that can be said about computers. you can’t inspect the electrical signals, you wouldn’t be able to do that even with an utopistic fully open hardware computer.