• John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    2 months ago

    You’d think so, but the answer is no. They’ve employed companies like Microsoft, Oracle, etc. to write up the security handbooks that says proprietary software is more secure. Heck, even electronic voting systems in the US is closed-source.

    • Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      20·
      2 months ago

      Heck, even electronic voting systems in the US is closed-source.

      How can elections even be trusted to be fair in that case?

      • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        142·
        2 months ago

        Simply, you can’t. I’m personally all for an open source alternative for electronic voting. I can bank online, but not vote online. I’d trust an open source online voting platform more than I’d trust poll workers to not skew some votes. I’d also like to be able to track my vote and ensure it was cast for the person I voted for.

        • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          Banking is completely different from voting from a security point of view. None of the parties in a bank transaction are anonymous, and there are numerous ways to retry or roll back a transaction. Computerized voting is more like crypto currency. 😝

          • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Computerized voting is more like crypto currency. 😝

            Like it, but worse

        • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          2 months ago

          you can’t have secret ballot and have a secure, auditible online vote. One of the problems of social media is it has created enemy lists for authoritarian states.

          • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            You kind of can. Depends how fully auditable you want, but you can have cryptographically anonymized entries, that (I believe?) could even allow the original voter to track their vote, without enabling anyone else to track the vote back to the voter.

            It’s a different project, but GNU Taler have some interesting work on anonymized but not forgeable money transactions.

            • CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              The issue with online voting, no matter what you do, is that someone can force you under threat of violence to vote for a specific candidate, and watch to make sure you do it. Complete privacy in the voting booth is paramount to ensuring that everyone can vote freely.

        • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Biggest vulnreability for online voting stands behind voter

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        2 months ago

        I think we’re well past the open/closed discussion when hackers have repeatedly shown how easy it is to compromise the voting machines.

        We know they’re trash, it’s not theory.

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        By claiming that everyone who do not trust is communist trumpist