AndroTux
Joined 10 years ago
Joined 10 years ago
Unlike well-thought-out languages like JavaScript, of course.
What's the saying? A programming language is either bad, or no one uses it. Discussions about flavors of bad in well-established programming languages are a waste of time.
In theory. In practice, many can't just decide to shut down their service for a few hours.
Every programming language has security vulnerabilities. PHP doesn’t have any more than others.
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9247-der_pc-wahl-hack
Granted, that's the benefit of paper votes: You can always count them again.
Currently, with people trusting the government, this system is great. I can just cast my vote online, like I do everything else here, and I can be reasonably sure that my vote is counted thanks to the aforementioned trust in the system.
But I really fear the day that trust erodes.
On the other hand, though, once the trust is gone, I think it doesn’t really matter whether it’s an analog or digital count. People won’t trust the system anyways.
Then again, there’s a lot of nuances and different levels of trust, which is the reason why I don’t know what the right answer is.