__/ [ [H]omer ] on Saturday 28 April 2007 09:00 \__
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> __/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 27 April 2007 23:09 \__
>>
>>> Quote:
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>>> Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
>>> November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
>>> corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
>>>
>>> The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
>>> engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
>>> of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
>>> occurs on an election night [and Microsoft advises againt using Jet in
>>> a complex environment]...
>
> And *this* was their *voting machine*?
>
> Good grief!
>
>>> The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
>>> crashing and freezing on election night....
>
> Really, why is that?
>
>>> Diebold voting machines operate on Microsoft Windows
>
> Are they bragging or complaining?
>
>>> and rely on closed source for security.
>
> Security through obscurity. Yup, that works.
Secure from inspect[ion|ors].
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