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Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released
Mokurai sends a heads-up about Sequoia Voting Systems, which seems to have inadvertently released the SQL code for its voting databases. The existence of such code appears to violate Federal voting law: "Sequoia blew it on a public records response. ... They appear... to have just vandalized the data as valid databases by stripping the MS-SQL header data off, assuming that would stop us cold. They were wrong. The Linux 'strings' command was able to peel it apart. Nedit was able to digest 800-MB text files. What was revealed was thousands of lines of MS-SQL source code that appears to control or at least influence the logical flow of the election, in violation of a bunch of clauses in the FEC voting system rulebook banning interpreted code, machine modified code and mandating hash checks of voting system code." The code is all available for study or download, "the first time the innards of a US voting system can be downloaded and discussed publicly with no NDAs or court-ordered secrecy," notes Jim March of the Election Defense Alliance. Dig in and analyze.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
grep and find who should have won the election?
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
No, we need to have security! How the heck can a system be secure if everyone can see how it works and therefore how to crack it?! This stuff is simply too important to be left in the hands of the average citizen.
Now does stripping the illusion of voting away make us more or less free
Don't blame me! I voted for Kodos!
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
Why, thank you, that's the justification we've been looking for. Invoke Article III!
This might hurt your feelings but: you're a Canadian. Most Americans don't consider you ever.
Help stamp out iliturcy.