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  1. Re:What is this trying to say???? on Georgia Defends Electronic Voting Machines Despite 243-Percent Turnout In One Precinct (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That 276 registered voters could do 670 ballots and the need for an audit.

  2. The paper results can be seen by different election observers and a much more city and state wide tally can be created.

  3. Re:I just want to actually -OWN- what I buy on P2P Piracy is Alive and Growing, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait for the OS to start reporting back on what files got created and what got downloaded.
    Call it free anti virus support by the "free" OS but every user file gets a unique number.

  4. Re:Anyone shocked? on P2P Piracy is Alive and Growing, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Nations keep logs of all networked computer use from every ISP for some time.
    Photo ID to get an approved cell phone that will work?
    The tracking is in place.

    VPN use can be tracked by the security services. Bullrun (decryption program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    Police and security services do not want to ban what was onion routing and have a great ability to find users when needed.

  5. Re:Use good passwords on Hashcat Developer Discovers Simpler Way To Crack WPA2 Wireless Passwords (hashcat.net) · · Score: 1

    The math protected the encrypted network.
    The network was not secure when it first starts.
    The network has to communicate about shared keys when first connecting.
    That first, initial communication is altered by another computer in the middle.
    That will reset further communication and the computer in the middle is then trusted.
    That nonce “number used once” is then well in play before any long password.
    ie the middle has a trusted way in and has part of what is needed to later be trusted. The needed math to then work out what the user was encrypting is then much more easy.
    The data stream has an extra user.

  6. Excluding Veterans Affairs hospitals? on Women Die More From Heart Attacks Than Men -- Unless the ER Doc Is Female (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    What was not usable from the Veterans Affairs data sets?

  7. Say an advance nation has its best doctors selected on merit. No average doctors are allowed.
    That would ensure everyone who arrived would get to see an expert team.
    Get to people in less time with skilled ambulance crews.
    Have helicopter crews that can fly in all conditions, day and night to get the sick to a nations very best teaching hospital.
    That would get more people to a quality hospital more quickly and the team ready would be the very best that nation could educate.
    The next question would be the shift work. Who is on at 2 am?
    Who gets to see all the difficult patients after a long shift? Who gets to go home at night? Who gets to work during normal office hours?
    A nations medical literature and medical experts should only be selected on merit.
    Then only get to work in the ER if they can keep to the best peer reviewed standards.

  8. So on Apple Tells Lawmakers iPhones Are Not Listening In On Consumers (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    PRISM was with the users consent?
    PRISM was another approved third-party app?
    Do governments get that explicitly approved microphone access?
    Hey NSA?

  9. Re:Photo of their government-issued identification on West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Expect a lot of federal and state ID data validation and reconciliation as its a new system.
    Banking, tax, work records, use of any US unemployment insurance programs in the past. Health care used for "free"?
    Past expected state and federal privacy protections that allowed illegal migrants to keep their photo "ID" may not be as useful as once expected.
    Once voting with an ID that does not link back to any US database using the data listed on the presented ID?
    That fake ID is now linked to a new image of the person. It was easy to create a new fake ID in the past. But the gov now has that face presenting fake ID to vote. That face will be more difficult to get any new US ID with :)
    Want to work, get a new job? Need a type of bank account that can accept a wage. Thats a "new" US bank account. Lots of citizenship, ID and ID needed needed. With that face photo. Past protections about information sharing at a state and federal level may not exist for a "new" bank account that has a wage paid into it.
    Slowly every existing fake ID, vote attempt and later use of a fake ID is detected by validation and reconciliation.

  10. Re: Slippery slope:what if made ONLY way to vote? on West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    AC most states can work with the very poor using support from a homeless shelter, nonprofit entity, faith based organization, other kind of shelter that will help US citizens.
    With their documents that are acceptable as proof of residency, US citizenship. The "categories of people" that cant vote are illegal migrants AC ...
    Everyone else as a US citizen can find the help and support to vote in their state as they always have.

  11. Re:Photo of their government-issued identification on West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "Just about every criminal alien here has an ID either given to them illegally by the city they or obtained from the sea of counterfeit IDs available."
    That would not have any state or federal backing.
    Counterfeit IDs cant move too deep into state or federal databases or they get noticed. So they are as limited as legally possible.
    Once any a real human has to show their face and link it with an ID that is pure database fiction?
    What would an illegal migrant like to show? US citizenship?
    That would need a list of documents showing birth, education, housing, tax, work, healthcare, unemployment insurance.
    All that gets expensive to create digitally fill in and create all over a state and federally for a counterfeit ID.

    The showing of a face is then a problem as that face is now linked to counterfeit ID. In the past it was more easy to get new ID. A voter system like this would have a face of interest and and the use of a counterfeit ID to vote :)

  12. Re:More relevant on NEC Unveils Facial Recognition System For 2020 Tokyo Olympics (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    AC the math of the speed per face detection is well understood.
    The international and national database work needed to match a face with is not new.
    Who is allowed into Japan for the sport event is understood.
    Japan can count and do math on every face entering japan. Every face that then returned to their own nations after the sports.
    How long they are allowed to stay in Japan is set.
    Show up on camera a set time after the sporting events are over and get detected.

  13. Re: uhhh cool the water then? on Europe's Heatwave is Forcing Nuclear Power Plants To Shut Down (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its a German and EU political and environmental problem. eg Thermal pollution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    The cooling water drawn from rivers, lakes, or seas will get more warm in hooter weather as more cooling water is needed.
    German laws put limits on how hot cooling water can be when returned to such "rivers, lakes, or seas".
    Laws limited the exisiting cooling engineering.

  14. Re 'Does a drivers license even prove citizenship?"
    Depends on the US state and who they allow to request and then give such a "drivers license" to.
    A 'lease agreement" with a landlord?
    "utility bills"?
    "photocopies"
    "nonprofit entity" attesting the applicant resides in the state?
    ie any random document for "residency" but not the ones that need US citizenship...

    The easy way to work that out is to then pass all that information back into state and federal networks. See if the data exits on the information provided.

  15. Re:Hey, great idea on West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections (cnn.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It would remove many of the traditional voter fraud issues.
    Have to be a US citizen.
    Have to have real photo ID and a real face to connect to that ID.
    Address, age, birth date, place of birth, residence can then be discovered back into other state gov networks.
    A "hacked" ID would not match a person. A random person would not match any of the data on the ID with a photo.
    None of their other ID, face, tax, healthcare use, employment status, occupation, education, property tax, medical history, tax forms, any criminal/court history would match for that given "hacked" ID in that state.
    A random face does not give an extra vote as they would have not history in that state.
    The same face cant vote many times under new fake names.
    Fake ID and shared ID, created ID for the election would be fictional/not fit with any other data sets in the state. That would have to fit with one real human face of the same age on the ID.

    Election observers would see the count all over their state, so a later state wide computer hack would not work to create a new final tally.

  16. Photo of their government-issued identification on West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Thats an interesting start.
    It allows any numbers and stats on the issued ID to get some deeper database work as the voters has given their data to the government.
    The unique faces shows the US citizen exists and that their face is connected to presented photo ID.

    This gets around the state trying to collected information about a voter. Trying to find out if they have voted many, many times in the same election.

    The state ID proves citizenship.
    That the ID has not been shared, is not fake.
    That a real US citizen exists once as a voter with that issued ID.

  17. Re:What about... on Pentagon Restricts Use of Location-Logging Fitness Trackers (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The contractors and staff get unhappy when all their tech is removed.
    They walk off site and start talking to random local people about their shift work on base.
    The random people around a US/UK base/ports are all spies who know who to listen and talk.
    The friendships turn the contractor into a spy.
    The contractor is told to become a spy for cash, faith, lifestyle..
    The US and UK contractors start to really like their new friends and talk more about all kinds of working conditions and what is not allowed.
    When they return to the USA, UK the contractors stop wanting to work under such difficult conditions and get to enjoy spying.

    To keep staff happy and to counter such easy spying, wages are good and working conditions are improved.
    Lax enforcement then allows tracking device back on base and "conditions' improve. While been collected on.

    Keep the devices and everyone is collected on.
    Remove all devices and staff get unhappy and start talking to spies again.
    Low pay, no devices and lots of new court martial rules just make staff more unhappy.
    Spies around a base/port/Cooperative Security Location really like unhappy staff ho want to talk about who get a court martial and that their pay is so low.

  18. the PRISM list.

  19. Find the best of the best and hire them.
    Ensure "security training" is done before the person gets to work on a brands projects.
    The person knows what they are doing and can study at lot more every year to learn more.
    Find the people who could study before passing exams on merit to get accepted into university.
    Could they keep on getting educated while in university? Pass more exams? Learn? Study?
    That might just be a good way of working out if they can keep on working for a company after university.

    "Security" is going to be difficult and need skills. Find staff who can keep working on difficult problems and who can take in new information.
    The "trust" issue is looking around and knowing too many people did not get in on merit.

  20. Think of the censorship on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Type the wrong word and further letters just cant be accessed until the word is removed.
    Only approved words can be entered.

  21. Re:Noooooooo! on The Touch Bar Could Replace the Keyboard on Future Macbooks (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The average user functions at the brain power of the GUI.
    Just as past generations of users could only work with one mouse button.

  22. No "satire" but it was the result of neat modern software that had its own charm.
    It was to be power prices but auto correct made it so much better :) So "opera" had to stay :)

  23. Re:People use Skype? on Microsoft Won't Force You To Use the New Skype Just Yet (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    What the user is still allowed to do is a funny read.

  24. Where you are the product. The free part is the bait.

  25. and clean up your code.
    Code thats full of bugs is not a feature. Secure your code and have real experts help with that.