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GravyDangerfield23 t1_j83oax2 wrote

Reply to comment by roboninja in Texas Taxpayers Face a $100M Bill to Update Voting Machines with Equipment That Doesn’t Exist Yet by Sorin61

Not entirely true.

It is still relevant as to how the state legislature is broken down, but yes, it is less relevant. For example, let's say for simplicity's sake that Texas had 4 million Dems & 6 million Republicans, leading to a 40/60 split that we would hope to see reflected in the govt body. If there were 10 legislative seats, each representing 1 million people, we could carve up 10 districts — 1 district that had 900k Dems and 100k Republicans, and the other 9 would all have 344,444 Dems and 655,555 Republicans, leading to an easy 90/10 split for Republicans.

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AyrA_ch t1_j83ghj7 wrote

Reply to comment by AwakenGreywolf in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet

Any online service you use is volatile to your password being stolen. In this case they just got the encrypted database, but with those remote services you usually run a browser extension. They're updated automatically, so you as a user would not even know if someone manages to smuggle password stealing code in there. The best password manager is one that is run on your local device only. If you use a good master password, you don't have to be concerned about your password database being synced over untrusted cloud storage providers.

End to end encrypted providers do exist though.

The people that stole the databases are not after anyones password specifically. They're running a huge password list against them and take what they can. data breaches usually work like this.

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Admetus t1_j83ft2i wrote

Reply to comment by ADroopyMango in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet

To be honest, not even paper. I would place a website and password clue in a text file. I'm not talking something simple like animal+49 = giraffe49, I'm talking about a clue where you already remember a whole bunch of passwords, you just need to know which one you used for that specific site so that you don't have to annoyingly try them all or get locked out.

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andrewhy t1_j839gc8 wrote

Reply to Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet

Maybe passwords are a terrible way of authenticating users, and we need to move towards something else. Even two-factor authentication is an improvement. I dunno about you, but I have more passwords than I can keep track of, and the alternatives to using a password manager are much worse, such as reusing passwords. A single compromised username/password that is reused elsewhere can lead to you being hacked.

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flossypants t1_j835yr0 wrote

Reply to Texas Taxpayers Face a $100M Bill to Update Voting Machines with Equipment That Doesn’t Exist Yet by Sorin61

Current rewritable drives, either rotating or solid-state, leave behind "ghosts" of what was previously written that would allow forensic experts to detect tampering. This write-once drive is just tweak on that. It also depends on trusting the drive manufacturer not to include a back door allowing a rewrite. It's not a bad idea but addresses something that's not a priority, it's not a panacea, and they're the sorta folk that might not commission something compliant in time. Dominion should get something compliant made and, if no one else does the same, they can demand an unhealthy amount of money as the unique supplier.

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