Abandoned bikes plus recovered bikes with no identified owner.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chip-x-ray

And optical inspection is common - and less capable in detecting attacks like manipulated silicon doping

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yd7qp6/i_am_the_coauthor_behind_acms_techbrief_on/ittyuja/

https://www.infona.pl/resource/bwmeta1.element.springer-147a2312-2fe6-3a08-9954-a904e950f9bb

> Instead of adding additional circuitry to the target design, we insert our hardware Trojans by changing the dopant polarity of existing transistors. Since the modified circuit appears legitimate on all wiring layers (including all metal and polysilicon), our family of Trojans is resistant to most detection techniques, including fine-grain optical inspection and checking against “golden chips”.

Did you not look at the link I provided above?

How to you think hardware tampering is discovered?

Didn't I already tell you I'm all for prosecuting the rest too?

If you think it's weaponized in every single instance where a criminal in the republican party gets caught then you need to reevaluate your life choices. Do you really think Republicans are overrepresented in prosecutions? They aren't.

You're really far down the rabbit hole. I told you everybody who breaks the law should face consequences and you falsely take it as proof that I somehow am the tribalistic hypocrite and not you yourself.

Do you think every voting machine in Florida can be xrayed?

Most people don't leave evidence but he did.

Nobody accidentally goes over the limit by that much.

My response is to go ahead and prosecute more people over it. Don't let people get away with crime. The people who's prosecutions you're upset over all broke the law.

The dude has fraud convictions. That's absolutely laughable.

In practice it's the paper copies that's the best security measure. It really isn't feasible to audit the hardware in full at scale.

The mules film was debunked in full before it was published.

Why does the name matter?

The wifi thing is a process issue. Local staff messed up. And in other countries they don't even need to mess with machines. If you control the whole thing with no insight and no audits you can just lie about the result regardless how the vote happens.

With paper backups AND independent audits none of that is a problem because the real count can be verified by hand, it would be obvious if it differs from what the machine reports. In western countries there's enough insight into how the voting is run to detect attempts at manipulation.

The issue remains proving the hardware runs that software and that software only. No extra chips, no modified chips, not even tweaking semiconductor doping, and no exploits against the secure boot mechanism.

Even game consoles and the iPhone and sometimes HSM's fail at this.

You don't know what gerrymandering is? Go look it up.

It's not a good idea to leave them exposed, but ideally shouldn't bea huge risk. And with paper backups and audits that risk can be minimized.

It's really the audit part that's important. Statistics and such topics. On the CS side maybe cryptography, if you want to learn about that part of electronic voting. There's /r/crypto (I'm a mod there) and /r/cryptography where you can ask questions.

It's not a sports team. More people voted against former guy than for him because they wanted him out. End of story.

What they did was faff around and mess with numbers they didn't understand.

It's not a good match for national elections. It may work for participants within an organization which understand the tech and issues at hand, but there's too many problems for national voting.

https://xkcd.com/2030/

With paper ballots as a backup and protected from tampering, it's pretty hard to mess with a competent audit and not get caught.

As a cryptography nerd, I think electronic remote voting for national elections is terrifying. Even the best possible technical solutions can be attacked with trivial workarounds if the users' devices can be compromised, or even substituted. Supply chain security for the hardware involved, handling issuing/registering keypairs and handling lost keypairs, etc. Coercion, targeted denial of service, etc.

Even without the actual election system being hacked, the processes around it can still be compromised. State of the art cryptography doesn't help when the keys are stolen and the inputs were replaced.

Also where they ask, they need to get a representative sample to make an accurate prediction