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"we need social solutions to social problems like election integrity," I fundamentally agree with that statement, but unfortunately a successful implementation is very unlikely: the democratic representation model itself is failing to ensure that integrity, and collective mechanisms are bound to fail, both by the same reason: humans act preferably based on incentives and according their individual interests. For such a power-related and divisive matter as politics, it is very unlikely that actors would prefer a common ground over acting in favour of themselves as individuals. In terms of theory of games, a Nash equilibrium by a collective decision would only be reached if no participant, especially those with accrued decision power, had anything to gain upon acting individually.

2024-10-31 20:12:01 GMT

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I guess making it bulletproof would require some thinking, maybe a new concept even. It is very likely that I misunderstood your logic question (rhetorical maybe?) as a technological one.
Without much thinking, one way to ensure that the machine is backdoor-free, the deployment process uses the correct source and/or that the checksums are correctly calculated is by a decentralized verification of the machine state, the integrity of an automated deployment system, and the correct configuration files. I am not an expert, but wouldn't that be a use case for some sort of multisigned smart contract?

2024-10-31 16:09:07 GMT

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Deployment verification against a hashed source version (via a version control system that everyone has access to), or calculating a checksum of binaries after deployment.

2024-10-31 15:26:39 GMT

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maybe democracy is exactly that, it is just that we were tricked into thinking it was something else. Countries that have had "democratic" in their names: North Korea, Algeria, communist side of Germany, Congo, Laos, Cambodia