The Value of (In)security
I got to reading a bit of the forum thread for the SVT ballot dev blog. There are some wonderful quotes such as “TEST vote, please ignore.” (I love that. Sorry TEST. It’s just funny, in a dark sort of way.) There is the usual tinfoil hat-ery going on, even though null blocs didn’t sweep the elections. There is the important idea that no voting system can represent people who cannot vote. Most interesting to me is the sentiment that null bloc candidates are bad. I’m not a null bloc guy, and don’t currently want to be one. But I don’t understand the sentiment. Sharing time: I’ve had the fun experience of talking with a wide range of Eve players, with some serious conversations with people from all areas of the game aside from WH space. But I’ve dipped into that area enough to know a thing or two about it. There seem to be a few major types of players. High sec carebears, in the bad way. High sec carebears in the “I can’t be bothered with that paranoia” camp. Low sec FW. Low sec Pirates. Null players. Give-no-shits pvpers. Out of all of these groups, one particular mindset Continue Reading →