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Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site
Harrington writes "In another stunning blow to the security and integrity of Diebold's electronic voting machines, someone has made a copy of the key which opens ALL Diebold e-voting machines from a picture on the company's own website. " Update: 02/06 17:40 GMT by Z : We previously discussed this story, early last year.
The picture was of a piece of luggage with the combination of "12345."
Pretty damn stupid to use that as a master key.
With the way it's gone so far today, apparently, slashdot is hosted in Iran.
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Maybe the cables being knocked out don't really supply Iran with the internet, but rather, supply the /. editors with brain power. Now that they've been cut we're getting duped stories that are a year old and they've lost the ability to put together coherent replies to their e-mail!
The real story is someone hacked a Diebold voting machine to host Slashdot. Notice how this site is running slower than usual, turning out false stories, and running dupes?
What's the problem? We've all been demanding "open" elections.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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The truth is that "Zonk," "CowboyNeal," etc. are actually just programs running on a server in Wisconsin. But the programs have a serious memory leak problems which only get worse if the server isn't rebooted ever few months. The guy who was supposed to reboot it this time couldn't afford the gas to Wisconsin.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.