[hackerspaces] A call to all hackerspaces

Jesse Sanford jessesanford at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 17:45:24 CEST 2011


I personally am interested in this project as well as "localized"
voting possibly only allowing those physically present within a
certain square footage to vote on a topic. Using the gps on devices (*
which could also be spoofed) or using access points with limited
wireless range and requiring users to be paired with them in order to
vote might work.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jesse Sanford <jessesanford at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you are already thinking of collecting faces you are basically
> asking people to give up their anonymity (a whole different issue all
> together) why not just collect phone numbers or serial numbers from
> the devices being used to vote with. User who own multiple devices
> could obviously vote twice or more but within any voting system there
> will always be a certain percentage able to game it. You have to build
> your algo with that in mind.
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Yves Quemener <quemener.yves at free.fr> wrote:
>> On 10/18/2011 05:10 PM, Dan Wobser wrote:
>>> Although with a high end software like the
>>> one I worked on, we were dealing with databases of hundreds of thousands of
>>> poor quality images and still getting over 90% accuracy.
>>
>> Wow, when was that ? I did not think you could have such a big database
>> nowadays with a reasonable error rate
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