Lets rewind even further - to the days of slashdot and the 2000 election. Diebold was the big issue and "how to secure voting" --- we screamed for a paper trail then and we still are today.
Honestly for those of us who have been keeping up we aren't shocked or supprized at all "we told you so" a long time ago - you just chose to ignore us.
Yep, great points. I was highly skeptical of closed sourced voting machines as well. Hopefully this new wave of awareness makes an impact, all you can really hope for really.
I don't exactly have a lot of hope that "this time" it will be any different. People were pretty salty after the Bush election and still NOTHING happened.
Lets be honest for a second - most of the American public's eyes glaze over when we get into the heart of these issues. All they hear is blah blah blah techno babble just fix my computer please -- why is my internet slow.
Honestly - we (the technologists) are the only ones who can hold ourselves accountable... And we haven't done a very good job thus far.
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Some of us got the message loud and clear when room 641A was being made public.
Some more got it when Zuck said his users were "dumb fucks" https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb...
There are still some people who don't get it at all.
People are acting supprized that there are links to Palantir with cambridge analitica -- I am not because Theil and Zuckerberg are two peas in a pod.
Funny how this turned out: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-bias/facebooks-z... they took the "people" out of the news feed in the process -- enable much?
Lets rewind even further - to the days of slashdot and the 2000 election. Diebold was the big issue and "how to secure voting" --- we screamed for a paper trail then and we still are today.
Honestly for those of us who have been keeping up we aren't shocked or supprized at all "we told you so" a long time ago - you just chose to ignore us.
Yep, great points. I was highly skeptical of closed sourced voting machines as well. Hopefully this new wave of awareness makes an impact, all you can really hope for really.
I don't exactly have a lot of hope that "this time" it will be any different. People were pretty salty after the Bush election and still NOTHING happened.
Lets be honest for a second - most of the American public's eyes glaze over when we get into the heart of these issues. All they hear is blah blah blah techno babble just fix my computer please -- why is my internet slow.
Honestly - we (the technologists) are the only ones who can hold ourselves accountable... And we haven't done a very good job thus far.
Maybe we should organize and withhold tech support, a la Lysistrata.