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Hacking the Presidential Election
An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers at a recent summit predicted US voters will be targeted by web-based dirty tricks campaigns as the 2008 election gets nearer. Spam, botnets and phishing all provide good opportunities to mislead voters and attack rivals with little risk of being caught, they say."
Uh huh. I'm sure port 139 is open on all the electronic voting machines.
"A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on." - Fred Allen
*sarcasm* It'll probably be the same dozen or so guys who have been spamming all the web polls & Digg for Ron Paul. I wonder how they managed to scrape up $5.1 million though? */sarcasm*
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
..the easiest, lowest-risk modern methods for criminally furthering one's agenda are likely to be used by modern criminals to further their agendas.
In other news, results of the study of wetness by the Institute for Applied Water are said to be forthcoming.
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I imagine some soldiers thought the same thing when they heard that the enemy had invented the machine gun.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you democracy fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of an FBI agent (Fox Mulder) for about 20 minutes now while he attempts to extract 17 names from a terrorist in Camp X-Ray to another FBI agent. 20 minutes. At home, on my Inquisition-era rack and vise replica, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this FBI agent, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this name transfer, scapegoating the Democrats will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Fox News is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working with various democratic institutions, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a democracy that has run faster than its fascist counterpart, despite the democracies' faster marketplace of ideas. My banana republic with 8 torture specialists runs faster than this 300-million person democracy at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that democracy is a superior system of government.
Democracy addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a democracy over other faster, cheaper, more stable governments.
I used to think that education and critical thinking, social activism and voter participation, community involvement (less time shopping and watching the Stupevision), and ridicule and repudiation of weak thinking and corruption, and strong support for good legislators and the laws would prevent imbeciles, thugs, and demagogues from taking power.
But to hell with it! Let's make the Internet an enabler for democracy!
In a few years, the candidate who wins the "LOL" vote will win every election.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
So what you're saying is that George W. Bush is really a Democrat, trying to make Republicans look bad?
See, this is exactly why the exception for politicians in the "Do Not Call" registry was a HUGE mistake.
The League Against Democracy *wants* you to think that democratic political parties make a farce out of democratic elections themselves. Its members spread FUD, volunteer for campaigns and polling stations, they run as candidates, they even *win* occasionally and wreck the system from the inside, they give blowjobs to honest politicians, basically anything that furthers the cause of destroying the demon of democracy.
The organization (if you want to call it that) has a cell structure: its members don't know eachother and have no way of recognizing eachother. They may be running against eachother. They may be giving eachother blowjobs...
I'M a Thompson man.. and I'm filled with fear and loathing..