Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> __/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 27 April 2007 23:09 \__
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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...
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>> 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.
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