You may want to take a look at Coyote Linux. It's a Linux distribution that fits on a floppy and can be configured via a very simple GUI on any windows computer (or not, if you prefer).
This is a nice way to turn any computer into a temporary (diskless?) drop in replacement firewall/router
Nice features:
Very easy to configure port forwarding rule configuration (from the windows gui)
Easy configuration of hardware (to keep it small enough to fit on disk)
I was thinking about this, and maybe it would be a good idea to formulate a special file system that would write once/read many?
If the file system could only APPEND to the hard drive it would be much easier to be sure that things could not be modified, and it would show a absolute trail of how and what order things occured in during the voting process.
Aren't there actually some form of mass storage devices that have this limitation? I don't think CDs are a viable solution here.
I think the solution here would be to have a system that is transparent to the voter in a different sense. Have the same punch card method that has been tried and proven, but have the computer also read the punch and tally the vote that way.
If we do this, it would be feasable to also tally the punch cards to have a way to make sure the computer system was properly handling votes. I really hope that some kind of physical tally is done until the system is proven to be trust worthy (and maybe even beyond that point)
The full text of the memos has been shown in one of the later comments. I won't post them here because I don't want/. to have to worry about similar legal concerns.
I think the best option would be to put things like this onto Freenet, after all.. these types of situations are what it was created for.
The internet isn't truly owned by anyone, being as that it is not a single entity the way many of you like to refer to it as.
DNS has to have some kind of central registry that we all trust to handle requests. If DNS was completely distributed, trying to go to www.somepage.com would be different for any given group of computers. I don't think that's what you want.
No matter what you're going to need to have specific trusted root nodes to handle the host name lookup databases to keep things consistant. The people at VeriSign just happen to control those "trusted" nodes.
Slashdot has definitely been flaking out for all of us all weekend. I don't have too much of a problem with article pages or the main page, but definitely user pages are not responding as they should be (if at all).
I can see that the FBI is going to see this as a major security comprimise for the US. What I'm curious about is if this VoIP in the long run will end up running off of a P2P type network, and if so, how will the company make money off of it? Some form of advertisement?
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This is a nice way to turn any computer into a temporary (diskless?) drop in replacement firewall/router
Nice features:
Very easy to configure port forwarding rule configuration (from the windows gui)
Easy configuration of hardware (to keep it small enough to fit on disk)
Stable
fnord
I was thinking about this, and maybe it would be a good idea to formulate a special file system that would write once/read many?
If the file system could only APPEND to the hard drive it would be much easier to be sure that things could not be modified, and it would show a absolute trail of how and what order things occured in during the voting process.
Aren't there actually some form of mass storage devices that have this limitation? I don't think CDs are a viable solution here.
Or more effectively KFG^3
I think the solution here would be to have a system that is transparent to the voter in a different sense. Have the same punch card method that has been tried and proven, but have the computer also read the punch and tally the vote that way.
If we do this, it would be feasable to also tally the punch cards to have a way to make sure the computer system was properly handling votes. I really hope that some kind of physical tally is done until the system is proven to be trust worthy (and maybe even beyond that point)
The full text of the memos has been shown in one of the later comments. I won't post them here because I don't want /. to have to worry about similar legal concerns.
I think the best option would be to put things like this onto Freenet, after all.. these types of situations are what it was created for.
would the word "crisis" be used to define a shortage of alcohol.
The internet isn't truly owned by anyone, being as that it is not a single entity the way many of you like to refer to it as. DNS has to have some kind of central registry that we all trust to handle requests. If DNS was completely distributed, trying to go to www.somepage.com would be different for any given group of computers. I don't think that's what you want. No matter what you're going to need to have specific trusted root nodes to handle the host name lookup databases to keep things consistant. The people at VeriSign just happen to control those "trusted" nodes.
Yes, and such a useful first post it was. I think someone deserves to have a foot posted against their ass - and a life.
that caused Milton to be tragically ripped away from his merry squirrels.
Slashdot has definitely been flaking out for all of us all weekend. I don't have too much of a problem with article pages or the main page, but definitely user pages are not responding as they should be (if at all).
I can see that the FBI is going to see this as a major security comprimise for the US. What I'm curious about is if this VoIP in the long run will end up running off of a P2P type network, and if so, how will the company make money off of it? Some form of advertisement?