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Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine
WhiteDragon writes "The folks at Open Voting Foundation got their hands on a Diebold AccuVote TS touchscreen voting machine. They took it apart (pictures here), and found the most serious security flaw ever discovered in this machine. A single switch is all that is required to cause the machine to boot an unverified external flash instead of the built-in, verified EEPROM."
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along
That's exactly what Diebold wants you to think...
a Diebold AccuVote...
At least their marketing department has a sense of humor.
Developers: We can use your help.
Thank you, thank you! I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
There are many good reasons to switch to American Idol call-in voting.
1. They still have the electoral college, so it's not like a spam vote will elect the "wrong" candidate.
2. Since the NSA monitors all phone calls, they could track cheaters really easily, compared with this mess we have now.
3. Way more voter participation, you don't have to go anywhere, you just call in with your social or something, etc.
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That's not a bug, it's a feature. Using your numbers, that's 1000 government-approved whitew^Wsecurity auditors, and 9,999,000 potential crackers.
Politicians will wake up when President Stallman of the GNU/Hurd Party is sworn in on January 21, 2009, after taking 53% of the votes, against 47% for the OSS Party, led by candidate Eric Raymond. (Raymond credits his near-victory to having a landslide amongst the "Retired CIA/NSA Agents" demographic, on account of his party having "a more intel-friendly acronym" :)
About the only way a Libertarian, Green Party, or even Democratic candiate will win will be if they ever fix these things!
Jeremy
Well, yeah, a government of the people and by the people isn't going to work so well for the people when, by and large, the people are retarded and apathetic.
"I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy simply doesn't work."
-Kent Brockman
And no, I haven't got a better idea. Sigh.
If you let all of those other people wake up first there won't be any hot water left for your shower.
I read the internet for the articles.
Diebold is Oceana's voting solution. Diebold has always been Oceana's voting solution.
"There are more important things than stopping terrorism. Upholding the Constitution is one of them." - Ars Forumer.
A flaw? Nahh that one is definitively someone's feature.
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
Yeah, liberals and their damn documented corroborated facts. But they're LIBERAL facts and thus they're not factual.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
There's a problem- you're basing your argument on reality. And reality has a well know liberal bias. The right wing has been ignoring reality for decades due to that.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
>Perhaps if it was rigged so that "Mickey Mouse" wins, someone would see the light.
It was, he did. You might know him as George though.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
Or Arnold Schwarzenegger...
(actually, I blame that on democracy at work, not anything malicious...)
Either that or a lot more Katrina-style disasters to destroy people's television sets.
That "Hurricane Katrina" was a pretty popular reality show. It got coverage on multiple networks and got pretty good ratings. That "Bring 'Em On!" guy even had a guest appearance.
I wonder if there will be a new season of it this fall?
Yeah, like that was ever a problem for slashdotters...
Meh. I say we just use slot machines to vote. It's the perfect solution given that each administration is a gamble anyways.
*chug chug chug chug...chuck...clunk* WOOHOO! It said I voted for Party-X. That's right. Now that I think about it, I've ALWAYS wanted to vote for Party-X.
Life is not for the lazy.
What do you do when the all-electronic system says that more votes were cast than the number of registered voters in the precinct?
In Massachusetts I am sure you just wink at Ted Kennedy.
> Welcome to Oceania.
I believe some computer error has garbled your message. Clearly you meant to say:
"It is doubleplus good that we have always lived in Oceania."