AtHeartEngineer

“Where are they getting money to pay for sponsorships and what are their motivations”

Just some background on the cryptography going on:

Its a hash of a fingerprint of your iris that isn’t used for access, it’s used for Sybil resistance, which is a bit different. You wouldn’t use this to prove you are eligible to vote, only that you haven’t voted already for a specific election.

Under the hood, the iris scanning ball thing is just adding you to a membership registry. When you actually go to use your membership, you are generating a semaphore proof, which is a zero knowledge proof that you are in the registry with some nullification output so you can only participate in certain events some number of times (like voting once). You wouldn’t use this by itself to prove that you are eligible to vote.

Generating secret keys from public data (iris)

These aren’t exactly secret keys, but, yes, I agree. Also the Minority Report vibes weird me out.

They use a grounded faraday cage around it. Video on it where he touched on that https://youtu.be/fyai_kUYhLs

Lol I think it would just be 3 am or 9pm depending on which way you are talking

Can we get rid of timezones and switch to UTC please

I don’t think he will actually be able to pull this off. All federal agencies use USPS because they are govt employees, there are tons and tons of policies written about what has to be sent using USPS. Sure he probably could try to do this, but I imagine he will get a fair bit of pushback internally

This is misleading, tech linked did an explanation about this the other day https://youtu.be/Jio-Wq11K80

That just would allow a malicious attacker to fake being the server, it doesn’t actually compromise the TLS session. So you are talking about a much more sophisticated multi stage attack that needs to be actively executed. This wouldn’t at all allow them to record traffic and decrypt later.

The certs authenticate that you are talking to the real server, the symmetric session keys that are usually derived from a diffie helman key exchange have nothing to do with certs. That’s two separate (but connected) parts of the transaction to build a TLS session.

I work in cryptography, and I guarantee if that’s true “some person you know who worked in government security” would not tell you if they did know, or they are pulling shit out of their ass. There have been so many people that have looked at or worked on SSL/TLS implementations (including some of my coworkers), any vulnerabilities would have to be pretty subtle or clever, and that would be kept highly classified. Quit making shit up or repeating bullshit you heard.

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I have, if you are nice it goes fine

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I’m only saying this because the vote failed everywhere, clearly it’s a strategy problem.

If you ask anyone on the street if they would want more moderates and parties in office, a large majority would agree, so if that’s the goal, the question is, how do we get there. Ranked choice is great, but it’s not optimal in either how the tallying determines a winner, or in convincing people this is better. Approval voting is clearly easier to explain and probably convince people it’s better. So now that the vote has failed, we should reassess our strategy from ranked choice to approval voting.

We should be pushing approval voting instead, the educational barrier is way lower and both RC and approval are a load better than FPTP.

I think we should start pushing approval voting instead of ranked choice. Ranked choice is easy to explain how to vote but a little complex to explain how the vote is tallied and that’s what people find confusing.

Approval voting is straight forward and easy to explain, whoever gets the most approvals wins.

They both are much better than what we have.

Jfc

Ya I did, it probably is, thanks for bringing this up. We need to get the word out! Fuck misinformation!

Good

This is a larger internet/misinformation problem though, way beyond lemmy. You can filter stuff, but your friends and family may not

Get the word out more, we need to remind people or explain to people.

Honestly we need what you wrote but way more succinct in a way we can just copy and paste it to every post and news article we see that is just trying to divide us.