tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post7593137008921129710..comments2023-10-04T06:59:20.803-06:00Comments on The Enlightened Savage: Dr. Strangevote or: How I learned to stop surfing and love the paper ballotEnlightened Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872131888278838737noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post-88850408163659200422012-11-29T18:33:55.597-07:002012-11-29T18:33:55.597-07:00Add to the reading list:
http://www.technologyrevi...Add to the reading list:<br />http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506741/why-you-cant-vote-online/Kirk Schmidthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17542048595529522145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post-68405754380383638262012-11-29T09:41:20.238-07:002012-11-29T09:41:20.238-07:00One thing I wanted to mention but forgot:
A few m...One thing I wanted to mention but forgot:<br /><br />A few months ago I touched base with a constitutional expert. This lawyer did not provide a true legal opinion, and thus I will not name the person, but I wanted to bring up the conversation.<br /><br />I asked the person, "If a government were elected by online ballot and then some time later it was determined that the government were elected fraudulently, would decisions/bills passed by that government be valid?"<br /><br />The answer the person gave me was essentially, they believed that it would. I imagine this has to do with Royal Assent granted to bills at Federal or Provincial level. I don't know what would happen with civic.<br /><br />Just an interesting thing to think about.Kirk Schmidthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17542048595529522145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post-29748006042393855272012-11-29T07:04:44.412-07:002012-11-29T07:04:44.412-07:00Thanks for the correction. A Slashdot style link h...Thanks for the correction. A Slashdot style link highlighter required in our email apps I assume that means. Each abbreviated should be followed by the actual visited domain name.Saskboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05007644723481539082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post-20979880733844805332012-11-29T06:31:40.088-07:002012-11-29T06:31:40.088-07:00Actually that's one spot I made a mistake in m...Actually that's one spot I made a mistake in my text. I did the general IP so I didn't have to come up with a domain name, but you cannot have a subdomain to an IP address.<br /><br />However, it would be very easy to register a domain that still looks correct.<br /><br />For example, some websites, rather than use html or php will us a .do extension for the dynamic html. .do is also a country TLD for the Dominican<br /><br />So if my subdomain ended with file and then my address was votingsystem.do, it might still look valid.<br /><br />I had read somewhere that you could put the ?= in a subdomain but THIS IS WRONG. So, in correction to that piece, what if we considered this:<br />vote.elections.ca.id-123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789file-is.votesystem.do<br />While someone like you or I might spot that (assuming we parse the entire domain name, which could be up to 253 characters), for the most part a lot of people would likely miss it.Kirk Schmidthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17542048595529522145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post-21576600313445580042012-11-29T06:02:03.906-07:002012-11-29T06:02:03.906-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Kirk Schmidthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17542048595529522145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post-57965568349879722642012-11-28T23:37:49.787-07:002012-11-28T23:37:49.787-07:00Excellent. Having a BSc. Comp. Sci. I understood a...Excellent. Having a BSc. Comp. Sci. I understood all of the parts I read. The URL ending in an IP address is clever, and easy to miss even for someone looking for a fake looking URL.Saskboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05007644723481539082noreply@blogger.com