Atemu

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The way it's written doesn't say whether it simply isn't made to work for Firefox or whether it couldn't be made to work for Firefox. Fortunately, the latter appears to be the case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Detecting extensions using web accessible resources is not possible on Firefox as Firefox extension ID's are unique for every browser instance. Therefore the URL of the extension resources cannot be known by third parties.

and also for Chrome:

in manifest v3 extensions will be able to enable 'use_dynamic_url' option, which will change the resource URL for each session (browser restart). This will render this detection method unusable.

Though it should be noted that this method isn't the only way to detect extensions.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not invented here syndrome.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Homomorphic encryption enables votes to be both public and obfuscated at the same time.

That's nice but has nothing to do with voter fraud prevention.

I will not reply to the stupid ad hominem. You have made it exceptionally clear that you have no idea what my political views are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So PM claims it has on the order of 10^8 users. Let's assume each user has one email address with one public ed25519 key, both of which are likely false.

Each key is 32Byte; 32B * 10^8 = 3.2GB.

Could someone do the math how much fiat it'd take to store such an enormous amount of data on the Ethereum or monero blockchains?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This is false. Protonmail has supported Web Key Discovery for external domains since 2019: https://proton.me/blog/security-updates-2019

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

nobody’s made a solution that is simple and effective

This one isn't that either by the looks of it but it's certainly a problem where something like blockchain could provide a solution.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Voting is another concept that would become unhackable overnight

No. Voting on the blockchain is an even worse idea than money on the blockchain.

In many cases, there are good reasons why these things are done they way they are. I have yet to see a software system that is better at preventing voter fraud than humans looking at your government-issued ID at a poll site and humans overseeing other humans manually counting votes.

A single actor might be able to commit voter fraud in the order of dozes or hundreds of votes perhaps but with a digital voting system based on blockchain, they could do so on the order of thousands or even millions by compromising end-user devices used for voting or buy enough work/stake/whatever to perform a 51% attack.

Same goes for money btw. Our current system is by far not a perfect one but removing the ability for governments to i.e. freeze accounts of bad actors is not a boon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not just read but modify even.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It might be underpowered, it might not be. Just test it out? Do you notice performance issues related to your router?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I thought about switching the router to a dedicated one without a wireless access point

Is there a reason for this? Unless it has specific issues you'd like to fix, I'd just keep using the current router and simply disable its WiFi.

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