“We have one full-time staff member (that's me) and 14 mostly ​part-time contractors,” Executive Director Elizabeth Barron of the PHP Foundation said via ⁠email in an interview on Friday. Board members are unpaid volunteers, and funding ​comes from donations and grants.

Sounds more like she is stretched thin, and pointing out how unsustainable the current model is. Only one person dedicated to maintaining a programming language that ~70% of the internet uses is the perfect example of that xkcd “all modern infrastructure, vs one obscure person who has thanklessly been maintaining a project since 1997” meme.

Do you think “anarchy” means you actively try to give zero-day methods to state-sponsored hackers?

Yeah, this immediately jumped out at me too. Dude was fucking booking it. He was riding that shit like he was being chased, before the asshole even pulled up behind him.

I mean, following proper disclosure procedure requires giving the manufacturer adequate time to patch the vulnerabilities before they are released. Would you prefer they just publish the full how-to right up front, and create a zero-day for anyone (from script kiddies to state-sponsored hackers) to use as they see fit?

I think he said “get”, because he was yelling “I’m gonna get you” as he was being dragged away. AKA making death threats, which is a felony. He is trying to create plausible deniability for the death threats by jumping in front of a news camera, before any charges get filed.

The machine prints a paper ballot, which you then feed into a counting machine. The voting machine itself doesn’t actually store any of your votes after you have sent your selections to the printer. This allows them to preserve a hard copy for recounts, and also gives the voter a last chance to review their selections before they feed it into the counting machine.

I mean, any teacher who has ever used a scantron for their tests will know that “fill only one bubble per entry” is difficult for a surprising percentage of the population. Plus, if someone makes a mistake on a paper ballot with a sharpie, they need a whole new ballot.

The funny part is these voting machines actually just send your selections to a printer, which creates a hard copy with the corresponding bubbles filled in next to your selected names.

Then you feed that printed ballot into a counting machine. And the counting machine is just a fancy scantron reader. The point of the printer is that it creates a hard copy which can be counted by hand for recounts. It also gives the voter a last chance to review their selections (and ask a poll worker to invalidate their vote and let them start over if anything is incorrect) before they actually feed it into the counting machine.

Yup, this current administration would 100% take a page out of Nixon’s playbook and plant listening devices everywhere.

Yeah, as long as your firewall is properly hardened and up to date.

The “try to hack us to see if we’re vulnerable” part is 100% standard practice for security audits. It’s called penetration testing, and there is an entire industry set up around the idea of legally breaking into secure facilities, just to see if their security is working. It is healthy, because it can be a valuable tool for finding major security flaws.

The massive glaring issue is the fact that they asked the penetration testers to hide their results, and not alert the agencies involved. The entire point of a penetration test is to see if attackers can get in so that you can fix the issues they used to breach your facility. If the penetration testers aren’t sharing their results, it’s just fucking breaking and entering to tamper with voting machines. Asking the penetration testers to hide their results is like asking a surgeon to pull out a perfectly healthy organ.

At least the security company noticed this, and had the ethics to actually come forward about it.

But also, 4 of those 6 won’t bother to fucking vote.

For repeatedly driving into your thigh, just to feel something for once.

Yup, it’s the exact same propaganda trap that Hillary’s campaign fell prey to. Leading up to the vote with her and Trump, a large part of her campaign messaging had basically been “we’ve got this, he’s an idiot, he has no chance, he’s such an awful candidate.”

And then about a month before the election, there was a hard pivot when they realized they had lulled their voters into a false sense of security. The messaging suddenly changed from “we’ve got this” to “oh for the love of god, please go vote.” But it was too little, too late.

Both. We can do both. Holding agents accountable via the criminal courts is great, but that’s only half of the equation. The other half is making victims whole via civil court. Criminal charges for criminal acts should be the expectation, but a criminal charge does nothing to remediate the damage to the victim. If the state collects a fine as part of a criminal case, the victim doesn’t get any of that money. It is collected by the state as part of the judgement against a criminal. But that money doesn’t go to the victim, it goes to the state.

Oftentimes, the victims are locked up without any notice or ability to contact friends and family, which means they end up with lost jobs, missed rent/car/utility payments, etc… Because if you’re suddenly locked up for a week, that’s an entire week of sudden no-call-no-shows at your job. Even if they cut you loose afterwards, it doesn’t change the fact that they directly caused you to lose your job due to an entire week of missed shifts. And who keeps the victim solvent while they look for a new job, in one of the worst job markets in living memory?

And that’s before you even get into the emotional side of things. If you end up needing therapy to deal with the trauma of being kidnapped and illegally held in a torture camp, who pays for that therapy? Especially if you just lost your health insurance (because you lost your job) because of their illegal actions.

DON’T GASLIGHT ME, JESUS!

Supposed to, but with zero repercussions for failing to disclose. And a missing disclosure isn’t considered a valid reason for refunding, so customers who realize they have been conned can’t even request a refund.

I’m curious what you mean, because my phone has a perfectly usable file browser. By default it creates a data folder for each app, the same way Windows programs can create a directory in your user Documents folder for their data. In fact, there are some things that Apple’s file browser actually does better. For instance, the iPad has native pdf support, complete with markup, signing, combining multiple documents, etc… All available directly in the file browser.

Yeah, pretty much. A large part of what made the face-pie so effective was simply the “we can still touch you” reminder. It’s a powerful message, because it reminds them that their bodyguards only need to fail once. It’s the old “you need to protect yourself every time, we only need to touch you once” thing. Which is why they’ve captured the courts and police, to deter attacks even when they aren’t under constant protection.