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pearwaldorfStudents protesting efforts by voting machine company to make them take down memos
Regardless of the legality of how the memos were acquired (by a hacker who got into an insecure FTP server at Diebold), this is frightening.
Among the revelations in the memos was news that the Microsoft Access database used by the Diebold system to count votes was not protected by a password. This means anyone could alter votes by entering the database through an insecure backdoor, via physical access to the machine or remotely, via the phone system.
The memos also reveal that the audit log, which records any activity in the Access database, could be easily altered so that an intruder could erase a record of the intrusion.
This isn't somebody going into a remotely connected box and stealing code for Half-Life 2. This is fucking with people's VOTES. (Of course, the sardonic little voice in the back of my head says that if it really did make a difference, we wouldn't still be doing it.) And it's absolutely criminal that more voting machines are still being installed, when elections officials should know about the flaws in them.
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*hand, forehead*
This is the best hope for a Democratic presidential candidate? I like Dean, but keerist. That was a dumb-ass thing to do.
Regardless of the legality of how the memos were acquired (by a hacker who got into an insecure FTP server at Diebold), this is frightening.
Among the revelations in the memos was news that the Microsoft Access database used by the Diebold system to count votes was not protected by a password. This means anyone could alter votes by entering the database through an insecure backdoor, via physical access to the machine or remotely, via the phone system.
The memos also reveal that the audit log, which records any activity in the Access database, could be easily altered so that an intruder could erase a record of the intrusion.
This isn't somebody going into a remotely connected box and stealing code for Half-Life 2. This is fucking with people's VOTES. (Of course, the sardonic little voice in the back of my head says that if it really did make a difference, we wouldn't still be doing it.) And it's absolutely criminal that more voting machines are still being installed, when elections officials should know about the flaws in them.
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*hand, forehead*
This is the best hope for a Democratic presidential candidate? I like Dean, but keerist. That was a dumb-ass thing to do.
