The Security Value of Inefficiency - Schneier on Security
Efficient systems have limited ability to deal with system-wide economic shocks. Those shocks are coming with increased frequency. They're caused by global pandemics, yes, but also by climate change, by financial crises, by political crises. If we want to be secure against these crises and more, we need to add inefficiency back into our systems.
And one of the things we do with supreme levels of inefficiency is vote. We need to be careful not to mess that up.
Granted, some allowances need to be made for the pandemic. But even the staunchly well-behaved state in which I live is starting to reopen restaurants and other accommodations now, in July. By November we should be able to figure out ways to vote with reasonable safety that don't require injecting any more efficiency into the system than we have to.
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