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Submitted 5 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pg14g/til_th...

Background: https://blog.coinbase.com/2016/12/07/blockchain-token-securi...

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"ABSTRACT Estonia was the first country in the world to use Internet voting nationally, and today more than 30% of its ballots are cast online. In this paper, we analyze the security of the Estonian I-voting system based on a combination of in-person election observation, code review, and adversarial testing. Adopting a threat model that considers the advanced threats faced by a national election system—including dishonest insiders and state-sponsored attacks—we find that the I-voting system has serious architectural limitations and procedural gaps that potentially jeopardize the integrity of elections. In experimental attacks on a reproduction of the system, we demonstrate how such attackers could target the election servers or voters’ clients to alter election results or undermine the legitimacy of the system. Our findings illustrate the practical obstacles to Internet voting in the modern world, and they carry lessons for Estonia, for other countries considering adopting such systems, and for the security research community."

Cf. E-Voting Refuses to Die Even Though It's Neither Secure nor Secret: More than two dozen states offer some form of internet voting, but it often means waiving the right to a secret ballot https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/e-voting-refuses-...

"The goal is to enable a wave of innovation that gives individuals the capacity to possess and share their own official records of achievement. We invite feedback, contributions, and general discussion.

The initial design and development was led by MIT’s Media Lab and Learning Machine. For ongoing development, this open-source project actively encourages other collaborators to get involved. The standard is OBI compliant and extends the work of alternative academic credentialing." http://www.blockcerts.org/about.html

Summary: "Although supernatural beliefs often paint a peculiar picture about the physical world, the possibility that the beliefs might be based on inadequate understanding of the non-social world has not received research attention. In this study (N = 258), we therefore examined how physical-world skills and knowledge predict religious and paranormal beliefs. The results showed that supernatural beliefs correlated with all variables that were included, namely, with low systemizing, poor intuitive physics skills, poor mechanical ability, poor mental rotation, low school grades in mathematics and physics, poor common knowledge about physical and biological phenomena, intuitive and analytical thinking styles, and in particular, with assigning mentality to non-mental phenomena. Regression analyses indicated that the strongest predictors of the beliefs were overall physical capability (a factor representing most physical skills, interests, and knowledge) and intuitive thinking style." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.3248/full

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