Why can't we just pass legislation requiring government software to be open source and government databases to be open access? This is already the case in several jurisdictions.
I currently work for a local government, and pretty much everything in our databases (apart from SSNs and certain HIPAA-protected data in the health department's database) can be freely accessed via an FOIA request. Some legislation requiring that these DBs (or a live copy) be directly accessible by the public would be relatively easy and inexpensive to implement.
What advantages would there be by doing this via crypto/blockchain/whatever?
As it’s been explained to me the biggest benefit is for countries that don’t yet have this infrastructure built.
For countries that do have this built, it’s been explained to me as a cost savings compared with hiring a government contractor to maintain or improve the service. Especially in the context of InfoSec. Not only do these legacy services need to keep being updated because of potential zero-days but also even the expensive contractors (even mega-cap corporations) fuck up InfoSec “relatively” regularly and the cheaper government contractors are only going to be worse on average.
Having the worlds best minds build and test the InfoSec of different crypto solutions seems like it will just be the cheapest option in the long run.
I currently work for a local government, and pretty much everything in our databases (apart from SSNs and certain HIPAA-protected data in the health department's database) can be freely accessed via an FOIA request. Some legislation requiring that these DBs (or a live copy) be directly accessible by the public would be relatively easy and inexpensive to implement.
What advantages would there be by doing this via crypto/blockchain/whatever?