Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack

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22 points·dberhane··10 comments

This is exactly why I'm a huge fan of burdensome, difficult, snowflakey voting systems. Every state should be different. It should take many people to count the ballots. It should be hard.

Just like a natural organism, mono-cultures collapse because they are vulnerable. Voting should be a distributed system.

> snowflakey

I'm not sure if you're making a subtle political point here, or if there is a use of "snowflakey" that I'm not aware of.

I guess it is used as a synonym of unique here.

Yes unique. Is that not what the word means anymore?

I was thinking of how Trump supporters call liberals "snowflakes," but the meaning didn't seem to fit here. Thanks for the clarification!

This is the system we use in the UK, lots of people in lots of rooms counting ballots.

Any ideas for change motivated by efficiency should be looked at with extreme caution: You can't hack a ballot box but an electronic machine - especially many all made by the same company, as would be likely - is infinitely easier.

Their "backups" were both online and on the same network. Lol. There's a reason tapes still exist.

Not tapes, but sane sys admins. Whoever leaves backups on the same subnet as the production servers, probably with the same credentials too, is NOT sane and should not be working in IT.

Are Windows desktops still running vulnerability-riddled network services? (For what?) Otherwise, how does something like this affect an entire organization at once?

Not a cyber attack, but a cyber “oopsie.”

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