• dumblederp@aussie.zone
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    2 hours ago

    starlink internet / news.com.au / “Dutton25 campaign eats a fat shit over election results”

    Musk is a fuck head and we should avoid starlink because of Musk rather than the service itself.

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    9 hours ago

    What a great idea! Musk messing around with election infrastructure in the USA definitely wasn’t suspicious.

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    8 hours ago

    I’m not at all a fan of the ketamine clown, but it’s literally just a dumb pipe.

    If you’re truly concerned about the integrity of data passed over it, treat it as one of many multiplexed channels, and use out-of-band cryptographic validation, which any serious voting system design should include regardless.

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      6 hours ago

      We should 100%, unironically go back solely to paper ballots. Even if they take months to tally up.

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        These are Australian elections – it is 100% paper ballots.

        https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/counting/

        The starlink thing is just a backup link for communicating election-night preliminary count data counted by election staff at the booths. Then the ballots are transported to counting centres for the official count. Full legal results aren’t known for a couple of weeks.

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      6 hours ago

      Sure. But I do wonder why he’s so keen to get involved here. Don’t trust it for one bit.