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A friend of mine works for one of the online voting companies. According to this person the Republicans were all prepared to use online voting at their convention, but pulled it at the last minute. Allegedly the Bush campaign staff didn't want any possibilty of changing the carefully orchestrated nomination-by-acclamation procedure.
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I heard a commentator point out that voter apathy can also be construed as an implicit endorsement of the status quo. People will vote when they care about the outcome. If people are basically satisfied, there is no need to vote.
Back in the seventies, Dennis Ritchie (father of "C") created a Trojan Horse that he slipped into one of the early UNIX releases at Bell Labs. It involved the C compiler recognizing that it was compiling login.c (the kernel routine for user logon) and added code to it to allow a back-door entry. But this was just a bootstrap. The real cleverness was to create a binary of the compiler that recogognized it was building the compiler, in which it inserted code to recognize login.c (and, of course, to insert itself in the new binary). Now despite a source distribution, the Trojan Horse was able to be distributed in a "source" distribution.
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A friend of mine works for one of the online voting companies. According to this person the Republicans were all prepared to use online voting at their convention, but pulled it at the last minute. Allegedly the Bush campaign staff didn't want any possibilty of changing the carefully orchestrated nomination-by-acclamation procedure.
I heard a commentator point out that voter apathy can also be construed as an implicit endorsement of the status quo. People will vote when they care about the outcome. If people are basically satisfied, there is no need to vote.
Back in the seventies, Dennis Ritchie (father of "C") created a Trojan Horse that he slipped into one of the early UNIX releases at Bell Labs. It involved the C compiler recognizing that it was compiling login.c (the kernel routine for user logon) and added code to it to allow a back-door entry. But this was just a bootstrap. The real cleverness was to create a binary of the compiler that recogognized it was building the compiler, in which it inserted code to recognize login.c (and, of course, to insert itself in the new binary). Now despite a source distribution, the Trojan Horse was able to be distributed in a "source" distribution.