If nothing else this proves what kind of competitive rival(s) MS is up against (or anticipates to face in the near future). Why else would they be scrambling to change our immigration laws?
Open source projects already have coders from all over the world who usually do their thing without having to relocate.
For obvious reasons, more and more talented people can be found outside the US.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the highly compartmentalized (ie. secret) business Microsoft runs, these engineers would be US-based so that MS could keep tabs on them.
It has come down to this: "Trade secret" statues say we the people may not
inspect their code, and even if we did there's no way we could monitor the
private network this system will be running on.
A full blown computer is overkill in this case.
We need to think in reverse here --..And I'm talking vacuum tubes and
transistors.
The potential for easter eggs, security holes and dirty tricks is ripe.
Inevitably there will be a breach of security and someone WILL
manipulate/hack/cheat the system.
The exploit potential exists throughout the touchscreen application, the
operating system, network infrastructure, all the way down to the firmware in
those boxes.
Perhaps No. 2 pencils and bubble sheets are not quite out-of-date yet.
The NZ people were the ones who ORIGINALLY acquired the files from Diebold's FTP site and broke the story. These other folks by the names of Stubblefield, Rubin and Kohno and Wallach came on the scene a little later; NOW the 'world' hears about this .
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If nothing else this proves what kind of competitive rival(s) MS is up against (or anticipates to face in the near future). Why else would they be scrambling to change our immigration laws?
Open source projects already have coders from all over the world who usually do their thing without having to relocate.
For obvious reasons, more and more talented people can be found outside the US.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with the highly compartmentalized (ie. secret) business Microsoft runs, these engineers would be US-based so that MS could keep tabs on them.
It has come down to this: "Trade secret" statues say we the people may not inspect their code, and even if we did there's no way we could monitor the private network this system will be running on.
..And I'm talking vacuum tubes and
transistors.
A full blown computer is overkill in this case.
We need to think in reverse here --
The potential for easter eggs, security holes and dirty tricks is ripe. Inevitably there will be a breach of security and someone WILL manipulate/hack/cheat the system.
The exploit potential exists throughout the touchscreen application, the operating system, network infrastructure, all the way down to the firmware in those boxes.
Perhaps No. 2 pencils and bubble sheets are not quite out-of-date yet.
" Imagine that a rogue programmer gets access to a few networks of computers in the California special gubernatorial election.
The Techno-Voting Nightmare; Digital Vote Corruption-- First California-- then the 2004 Elections.
The NZ people were the ones who ORIGINALLY acquired the files from Diebold's FTP site and broke the story.
These other folks by the names of Stubblefield, Rubin and Kohno and Wallach came on the scene a little later; NOW the 'world' hears about this .