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EFF Announces 2004 Pioneer Award Winners

Posted by simoniker on from the paper-voting-methods-used? dept.

Christopher Soghoian writes "In an announcement earlier this week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has revealed the winners of the Thirteenth Annual Pioneer Awards. Focusing on the area of electronic voting security and accountability, they have highlighted the work of Kim Alexander, the president of the California Voter Foundation, David Dill, a Stanford Professor and founder of VerifiedVoting.org, and Avi Rubin, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who co-authored the highly publicized Diebold report of 2003."

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  1. Re:BENEDICT ARNOLDS OF THE OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    This is offtopic (mod me down, karma-bonus isn't working anyway), but I'll bite:

    What do you have to look forward to?
    Following in their footsteps: creating a wildly successful capitalist business that uses others' open-source to reduce costs, in the process possibly contributing back in minor amounts. It worked for Apple, it worked for Google, it worked for countless others I won't bother to name, it'll work for me.

  2. Re:oh yeah? by MikeXpop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well hey, at least it's not the Grammy's.

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    Etiquette is etiquette. He kills his mother but he can't wear grey trousers.