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Vote Tabulator Security Hole Exposed
Doc Ruby writes "Black Box Voting has exposed a security hole in Diebold machines that tabulate votes collected from electronic voting machines. A code entered into the tabulator's user interface duplicates the "secure" counts into an insecure count which can be changed, and counted instead. The "double books" vulnerability and exploit were reported to the manufacturer over a year ago, and confirmed, while major customers (California and Washington states) were notified shortly thereafter. In spite of some revisions, the latest version of the software remains insecure. Diebold voting machines running GEMS version 1.18.x are vulnerable, running in about three dozen states. Although the software is widely deployed, and scheduled for use in shortly upcoming elections, risk mitigations are available, mostly protocols restricting physical or network access to the machines. Other auditing/accountability measures for ensuring only trusted access to the system are recommended."
One of the suggestions for "Diebold" is "Diablo" Accident? I think not...
Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
For that matter, use this email! Early bird gets the worm http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-8f4191c0b8-dd12e91 420-e99ddd1927
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Yeah, you know all those raging liberal mobs who like to run around and beat up young republicans with baseball bats.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
(1) expressing disagreement with someone is not intolerance
(2) my sig is a paraphrase of the dictionary.com definition of liberal ; specifically definitions 1a and 1b.
(3) the intent of my sig is to provoke the question: "Given the definition of the word 'liberal', how has our society reached a point where the word is mostly employed as an insult?".
Liberal (adj.): Free from bigotry; open to progress; tolerant of others.