Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Democrats Load Platform Committee to Stop Progressive Movement" video.

  1. How much more evidence do people need to understand that the DNC is composed of cheating compromised co-opted scumbags? Slowly via the new distributed media of the internet people are learning about their continuing ongoing dirty tricks in the service of their oligarch masters. The cheating has already begun with the introduction of an app that Iowa caucus will use to report local results. From the sellouts at NPR: Iowa's Democrats hope the new app lets the party get results out to the public quicker, says Troy Price, the chairman of the state party. In an interview, Price declined to provide more details about which company or companies designed the app, or about what specific measures have been put in place to guarantee the system's security. But security is a priority, he says. The state party worked with the national party's cybersecurity team, and with Harvard University's Defending Digital Democracy project, but Price declined to answer directly whether any third party has investigated the app for vulnerabilities, as many cybersecurity experts recommend. "We as the party have taken this very seriously, and we know how important it is for us to make sure that our process is secure and that we protect the integrity of the process," Price says. "We want to make sure we are not relaying information that could be used against us." Unlike many states in which local and state officials oversee the presidential primary election, in Iowa the state party is responsible for administering, staffing and funding the caucuses, relying primarily on trained but unpaid volunteers. Cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said that the party's decision to withhold the technical details of its app doesn't do much to protect the system — and instead makes it hard to have complete confidence in it. "The idea of security through obscurity is almost always a mistake," says Doug Jones, a computer science professor at the University of Iowa and a former caucus precinct leader. "Drawing the blinds on the process leaves us, in the public, in a position where we can't even assess the competence of the people doing something on our behalf."
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