Florida County Asks Students To Crack Elections

imAck writes: "After the election fiasco last year in Florida, many have discussed the possibilities of using a computerized voting system to replace the old punch-card ballot system. Florida's Broward county is considering buying a $20 million dollar computerized touchscreen system to handle future elections. What makes the story interesting is how they are planning to test the system for security holes. The county plans on holding mock elections in high schools and at senior citizen communities. They are actually asking the students to try and hack into the system during the mock elections to learn of possible security issues." I wonder if Broward County would look into spending their money on hardware and supporting development of the GNU Project's existing electronic voting software.

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Re:Please /. and troll these guys - they screwed m

[Phork]

wow, this really cares em that this got modded up, this guy is asking people to launch a disctributed denian of service attack againt a company who he say(and we have no proof) screwed him over.

Re:Please /. and troll these guys - they screwed m

[benedict]

How do we know you don't work for their competition? Or maybe you could be a pissed-off ex-employee.

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[pdiaz]

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