As a long time reader of comp.risks, and having a professional interest in security (as a sysadmin), I'll take this opportunity to say that anyone who is promoting online voting as a replacement for paper ballots is (in my opinion) one or more of a)Hopelessly naive, b)Frighteningly optimistic, c)Woefully ignorant of the problems of authentication combined with anonymity, d)Ignoring the problems of coercion, or (worst of all) e) Willing to accept vote tampering. I do not seriously think that the Electoral Commissioner would be willing to accept vote tampering, but every electronic or online system has been demonstrated to be vulnerable to it. Worse, such attacks can occur at any point, be it in corrupt coding, interference with the ballots, or by injecting forged ballots. All of these have be proven to be possible in every practical and theoretical system proposed to date. This is ignoring the problem of d) - if the voting is not occurring in a public place, how do you prove that t...
Fructan intolerance seems to be a thing and currently the only way to find low fructan foods is to look in the gluten free section.
ReplyDeleteThat's the whole FODMAP site of things ... yes, the best source of FODMAP-friendly foods is with the GF foods, but there are also many non-GF low-FODMAP foods. There is also the cross-contamination side of things - there are any number of things that are not coeliac safe that are otherwise low-gluten/low-FODMAP.
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