English-speaking friends, I need your help! Brazil uses an obsolete, inauditable, and closed-source voting machine. Tomorrow we vote for president, governor, and Congress members, and the fate of our 200M people democracy depends *exclusively* on the security of this machine (it produces no independent physical evidence of the votes). We know for a fact, though, from respected researcher and cryptographer Diego F. Aranha, that it is insecure[1]. (For the technically-inclined, lets just say that the ballots secrecy is guarded by srand(time(null)). You can imagine the rest.) Its been like this for 18 years. This year, were doing something about it. Weve launched a campaign to raise awareness about the very real threat of large-scale, undetectable fraud, and it has so far been a huge success. Weve raised over twice the amount we asked for in our crowdfunding campaign[2]. We were featured in every major news outlet in the country[3]. Weve built and deployed a mobile app for citizen inspection of poll tapes, and reached an install base that is estimated to cover a sample of over 20% of all electoral zones in the country, positively impacting the electoral transparency of over 40 million people.[4] But it is not enough. The Brazilian government has had enough time and resources in its hands to convince the whole country that not only are the machines secure, but that they are also the envy of the world. Weve made an impact. In the past weeks, theyve adapted their rhetoric from unpenetrable to nothing is 100% secure[5], but we still have a long way to go. Were now faced with the very real possibility that theyll flex their PR muscles once again, shove this all under the rug, and not change a thing after elections are over and people have moved on. You can make sure that doesnt happen. International pressure and public shaming have done a great deal for citizens all over the world, proving the Internets power to unite humans across borders for the good of one another. You can do that for 200M Brazilians today. Please, read the article in the link below and, if you feel its important, share it and upvote it on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator/item?id=8410586 If we cant be heard from the inside, lets be heard from the outside. You can be our voice. Thank you so much! Your friend, Helder -- References: [1]: https://sites.google/site/dfaranha/pubs/aranha-karam-miranda-scarel-12-book [2]: catarse.me/VoceFiscal [3]: https://google/search?hl=pt-BR&gl=br&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=%22voc%C3%AA+fiscal%22&oq=%22voc%C3%AA+fiscal%22&gs_l=news-cc.3.0.43j43i53.924.2190.0.3729.14.2.0.12.0.1.162.191.1j1.2.0...0.0...1ac.1j4.dnBNYZwey5U [4]: https://play.google/store/apps/details?id=org.vocefiscal [5]: eleicoes.uol.br/2014/noticias/2014/08/29/tse-sugere-que-urna-eletronica-esta-sujeita-a-fraudes.htm
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 21:23:40 +0000
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