Internet Enabled Voting For US Elections
Internet enabled voting is a must IMO. Many that are afraid of the security risks and remote hacking have a very shallow, if any, understanding of the risks involved.
To claim physical (paper) voting is more secure is absurd. Every country that has used that system, including ours, has encountered fraud in some form.
Maybe this is the perfect catalyst for getting our Internet providers to finally enable IPV6. It would make external attacks a couple orders of magnitude more difficult. Not too mention providing direct 1:1 accountability to track every single device used to vote.
Internet Enabled Voting For US Elections
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Internet enabled voting is a must IMO. Many that are afraid of the security risks and remote hacking have a very shallow, if any, understanding of the risks involved.
To claim physical (paper) voting is more secure is absurd. Every country that has used that system, including ours, has encountered fraud in some form.
Maybe this is the perfect catalyst for getting our Internet providers to finally enable IPV6. It would make external attacks a couple orders of magnitude more difficult. Not too mention providing direct 1:1 accountability to track every single device used to vote.
Converting A Standalone Instance Into An EC2 Load Balanced Cluster
Creating a new web application that resides on an AWS load balanced cluster is easy with the Elastic Beanstalk assistant. That is a great solution if you want to run every web service or application on their own instances. It is not a great fit for complex environments like the one being used for Store Locator Plus®.
Store Locator Plus® has several environments running within the same master domain. Multiple servers and load balancers creates a security certificate nightmare. Not too mention it starts racking up EC2 server fees quickly if they each became their own cluster. The better option is to retain a server instance that allows us to run our SaaS offering, our buy-and-own plugin store, our documentation site, and our demo site from a single disk image. We want to setup a full EC2 Load Balanced Cluster to gain the benefits of horizontal scaling on a server hosting multiple domains and web apps.
While this is easy to do with a single EC2 instance that hosts multiple host names for the storelocatorplus.com domain, making it scalable under load is the trick. It turns out Elastic Beanstalk is not a good fit. Instead we need to build a load balanced cluster “from scratch”. We’ll need to combine a machine image from a running server with a Launch Template. We will need an Application Load Balancer that will have instances attached and detached automatically from an Auto Scaling Group that we will also create.
Our environment also has a configured EC2 instance to run the web application stacks, mostly WordPress, locally on an EBS volume that uses an Amazon Aurora MySQL RDS database in multiple zones for performance and reliability. These two features make it easy to replicate the disk image for the software portion and maintain a persistent DB store across all instances.
Read MoreCloning A VVV 2.6 Install
Decided to upgrade my long-term VVV setup that I use for daily client consulting work in preparation for a new gig as head of R&D and CTO for a super cool tech startup. As usual I should have left things alone as it was working fine; I only wanted to play with the newer VVV toys. You’d think I’d learn by now.
What I ended up doing was cloning a working baseline VVV install I had created a few weeks ago for the WordPress Plugin Development class I’ve been teaching at The Blockyard this year as part of the CodeBlock initiative.
Turns out this will be super useful for those nights when we have a dozen students all trying to initialize a new VVV install and we don’t have the bandwidth for 12 simultaneous 500MB box image downloads.
Here are the notes for a MacOS install. Windows will be slightly different but the same concepts apply.
Read MoreUbuntu Trusty: PHP 7.2 MIA
Working with Varying Vagrant Vagrants today and having problems spinning up a new box? Don’t blame yourself. It appears that the PHP 7.2 libs… in fact ALL of the PHP libs for Ubuntu Trusty have gone away.
The ppa:ondrej/php repository that is cited everywhere has decided it is not going to serve up any PHP code to your Vagrant boxes today.
Maybe they’ll fix it soon. Maybe not. If anyone has a workaround please comment here.
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