On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:36:25 +0000, Philip wrote:
> Tim Smith wrote:
>> On 2006-10-11, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>| - A remote access program called PC Anywhere was found resident in the
>>>| system
>>
>>
>> Linux has ssh, VNC, and X.
>>
>>
>>>| - Evidence of insertion of an encrypted Lexar Jump Drive was present
>>
>>
>> Linux supports jump drives.
>>
>>
>>>| - Evidence of attempts to alter or write HTML files (used to report
>>>| results) was present
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>>
>> Linux allows HTML files to be edited.
>>
>>
>>>| - Apparently without a firewall, the GEMS system was opened up to the
>>>| County Network
>>
>>
>> Firewalls are optional in Linux.
>>
>>
>>>| - A prohibited program, Microsoft Access, which makes editing the
>>>| election chimpanzee-easy, was installed on the system AND USED shortly
>>>| after the election.
>>
>>
>> Linux programs for editing data are available.
>>
>> Is your argument that voting machines should switch to Linux because the
>> tools to fiddle with elections come free with Linux, so the bad
>> politicians won't have to spend taxpayer money buying third-party
>> software like PC Anywhere?
>
> No, the point is that systems like Diebold+Microsoft are closed, a black
> box, and you do not know what goes into them. An open sourced solution is
> assumed to be open an you know what is in it.
As I've already pointed out, Diebold's are relatively easy to crack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNYA5ggwG84
> Yes you could have all the same exposures in the open source solution, but
> you would never let that happen.
>
> Frankly, since the government offices running elections are from the
> pencil & paper crowd, they should stick with what they know. Delegating
> accounting of votes to some other business is asking for trouble.
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