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Grex > Coop6 > #54: Election fails! What now? | |
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danr
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response 50 of 54:
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Dec 21 17:06 UTC 1994 |
What Rane said....
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steve
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response 51 of 54:
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Dec 21 17:12 UTC 1994 |
Trust is an intregal part of any voting system. Thats why I'm not
worried about the current one. If we want to supplement it with a paper
system, fine. But people have to realize that at some point, someone
might see the casting of an individual, espically if its on paper.
Besides, if one were truely paranoid, they should worry about people
having root-access, since thats the ultimate invasion of anything private
on a system, of a most permenent nature.
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cicero
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response 52 of 54:
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Dec 22 05:36 UTC 1994 |
As far as I've ever heard "private" in the Unix world is defined as
"inaccessable to anyone but root". If you are going to live in the Unix
world, you have got to accept that. Therefore I have complete trust in
root. Those who ahave root access on this system especially have shown
that they have a great deal of integrity. passwords sound like a possibility,
but I'm not sure that they would add much, and given our overtaxed
programming resources, rewriting vote to that extent seems unfeasable.
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steve
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response 53 of 54:
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Dec 22 06:08 UTC 1994 |
Agreed. And in the non-UNIX world, private means "inaccessable to anyone
but <insert the supervior term here>".
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tsty
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response 54 of 54:
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Dec 22 13:15 UTC 1994 |
not a problem chi1taxi - this is ascii, not gender ...<g>.
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