It's already been proven that if you can get enough nodes with different information (e.g. changed votes in this case) into the chain that you can force the rest of the chain to change its consensus to your desired outcome. Why anyone would use this for voting just defies all logic and uncommon sense. (I stopped calling it common sense when I realized that if it were actually common, I wouldn't continually need to point out the obvious to the oblivious.) Honestly my home WiFi uses 4096 bit keys and certs. How is it that a major world power has less encryption on their VOTING system than I do for Plex server? Who thought this was a good idea?

Remember this Russia we're talking about here. Voting against Putin or someone else might earn you some concrete overshoes. Having the election rigged is survivable so I think that having your vote revealed might actually be worse there.

The article says that the poisoned libraries were downloaded almost 4000 times. I wonder who's going to get pwned because their DevOps pushes this into production as part of a microservice?

You forgot the man buns.

I got a lot of laughter and so many tin foil hat comments when I said that having all these smart gadgets was going to be bad. Now, since all your smart locks, doorbells, printers, lights, thermostats and all other nifty gadgets have no security, now who's laughing? Apparently, its not that hard to get past the best smart locks. The big concern should be the real infrastructure like natural gas pipe lines.

Are we going to microwave them too? https://www.theverge.com/2019/...

You are assuming that you get an interview in the first place. The filter software is horrible. HR is clueless ESPECIALLY when it comes to IT jobs.

I used to work for a very old medical insurance company. It was founded almost 200 years ago and has well-kept records going back to that time. We undertook a project to digitize all of our paper records, particularly those for life insurance claims. That got combined with all sorts of demographic and genealogical records along with your medical records and the data and records of any other blood relatives we could trade other insurance companies for. When it was done, the math wizards whipped up a nifty algorithm that told them when to cancel your disability coverage, your medical coverage, and your life insurance so that they could minimize payouts.

How many backdoors are on the President's cell phone or laptop? Why do I think they get special versions of the OS without the baked in protomalware? I think any business who suffers due to a data breach caused by being required to run software with this shiza baked into it should be permitted, encouraged really, to sue the government for their losses.

If they're going to sit on the device, like a giant keystroke logger, why bother encrypting anything? At this point, its just not worth the CPU cycles and battery life..... Once again, Facebook kills something as we know for the sake of its own profits.

We have Box at work. Its terrible. It syncs everything I upload to the cloud back to my hard drive willy nilly with no way to control it unless I log into the web page and start setting files and folders manually.

Keeping it for your self kinda destroys the idea of getting better service....

As a European consumer who is originally from the US. I can tell you that the content here is abysmal compared to what is available in other places. There is literally nothing on Netflix EU that hasn't been available Netflix US for at least 2 years. We're cancelling because we've already seen it all. In Netflix's defense, Amazon Prime isn't much better and neither is Google Play. If they want to grow in Europe, they could - easily probably - if they'd just get some content.