No, I have not been living under a rock. I HAVE been trying to give up the internet. Not a total withdrawal, just mostly. My new goal is to use the internet, and not be used by evil google and friends. It will be a fine line to dance... If you have not seen Zach Vorhies being interviewed, you really ought to go check it out. If you have seen it, yeah, that was the straw that broke this camel's back.
Anyway, when I saw this headline I was stunned. I had no idea Russia was preparing to hold an election using blockchain based voting. That is so cool! Except that it took TWENTY MINUTES to crack the encryption?! I do not get that... I thought that was what made blockchain the shizz, I thought that was why all my passwords were such a long fustercluck of characters that I could never memorize them...?
I thought the timing was fascinating, here on the verge of HF21 on steemit's blockchain. I had considered powering down, just bailing before this went down but here I am still. I realize that I know absolutely nothing about blockchain still, even after two years here. I realize that I have no idea what the hard fork is going to look like, and I seem to be fresh out of phuks to give. As Bill hicks so aptly noted "It is just a ride" and I guess I am just along for the ride.I am curious if anyone has any insight into why the Russian voting blockchain was so easily hacked? If I had any real money tied up in crypto, I would find that pretty disturbing.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/moscows-blockchain-voting-system-cracked-a-month-before-election/
Have a lovely Friday. I will be up trying to get that man's bull back out of my pasture and building the God-fence. He came up and ran it home then went back to the city. I am sure the bull was back in my pasture before he hit the county line on his way home. Bull shit going on all around me, but what me worry?! I am here in paradise!
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My guess would be "or something else"....lol.
Speaking of Election rigging and hacking I am wondering what would happen if during the 2020 election if Vladimir Putin made an announcement that he was gonna think of rigging the election in favor of the Dems. (But doesn't really do it.) It would really mess up a lot of minds.
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LOL! Evil genius!
The article puts the hack down to the encryption key sizes being too small to be secure. Quite astonishing that they posted the source code on GitHub, but just as well considering the outcome.
As to the bullshit, that's a real conundrum. All it takes is one asshole to ruin things for the rest.
Because they wanted people to try and break it as a test to the system...the fact it was so easily broken doesn't speak a whole lot of volume to whoever created it intelligence.