I'm going to have to agree, Nausicaä of the Valley of Windis perhaps the finest anime movie ever made. If you like Miyazaki's style, but found Princess Mononoke (and Spirited Away) to be somewhat dull, then give Nausicaä a chance -- it's much more gripping and adventurous. Second to that would have to be another Miyazaki film, Porco Rosso, which is just plain fun.
The enemies of Democracy are right here at home [blackboxvoting.com]
How are they the enemies of Democracy? Isn't exposing security vulnerabilities a good thing? Wouldn't a secure voting system ensure democracy?
Open source has absolutely nothing to do with this issue.
The "open source" idea is relevant to the issue simply because it illustrates - and provides a solution for - the problem at hand. Certain devious "features" would never be implemented with the eyes of the public watching. In addition, any minor security "bugs" would be ironed out. That's a pretty sweet deal - prevent against corruption and create better code!
This reminds me of Cory Doctorow's Microsoft Research DRM talk @ http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt/. In illustrating the advantages of public ciphers, he tells us:
"This means that the only experimental methodology for discovering if you've made mistakes in your cipher is to tell all the smart
people you can about it and ask them to think of ways to break it. Without this critical step, you'll eventually end up living in a fool's paradise, where your attacker has broken your cipher ages ago and is quietly decrypting all her intercepts of your messages, snickering at you."
This is called Schneier's Law: "Anyone can come up with a security system so clever that he can't see its flaws."
Even if the programmers at Diebold were good and honest, we can get better security by moving to open source. Especially on this issue, I imagine 80% of all security programmers on Slashdot would love to contribute.
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Thanks, you just saved me hours of watching pointless anime.
I'm going to have to agree, Nausicaä of the Valley of Windis perhaps the finest anime movie ever made. If you like Miyazaki's style, but found Princess Mononoke (and Spirited Away) to be somewhat dull, then give Nausicaä a chance -- it's much more gripping and adventurous. Second to that would have to be another Miyazaki film, Porco Rosso, which is just plain fun.
The enemies of Democracy are right here at home [blackboxvoting.com] How are they the enemies of Democracy? Isn't exposing security vulnerabilities a good thing? Wouldn't a secure voting system ensure democracy?
The "open source" idea is relevant to the issue simply because it illustrates - and provides a solution for - the problem at hand. Certain devious "features" would never be implemented with the eyes of the public watching. In addition, any minor security "bugs" would be ironed out. That's a pretty sweet deal - prevent against corruption and create better code! This reminds me of Cory Doctorow's Microsoft Research DRM talk @ http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt/. In illustrating the advantages of public ciphers, he tells us:
"This means that the only experimental methodology for discovering if you've made mistakes in your cipher is to tell all the smart people you can about it and ask them to think of ways to break it. Without this critical step, you'll eventually end up living in a fool's paradise, where your attacker has broken your cipher ages ago and is quietly decrypting all her intercepts of your messages, snickering at you."
This is called Schneier's Law: "Anyone can come up with a security system so clever that he can't see its flaws."
Even if the programmers at Diebold were good and honest, we can get better security by moving to open source. Especially on this issue, I imagine 80% of all security programmers on Slashdot would love to contribute.