__/ [ Maverick ] on Wednesday 07 March 2007 04:58 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ Maverick ] on Tuesday 06 March 2007 23:08 \__
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>>
>>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>__/ [ Maverick ] on Tuesday 06 March 2007 18:27 \__
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>>>>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>>>__/ [ chrisv ] on Tuesday 06 March 2007 13:34 \__
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>>>>>>>Mark Kent wrote:
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>>>>>>>>Except a blue-screen should not take the machine down.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Why the hell would a voting machine need a massive OS like Windows (or
>>>>>>>Linux) anyway? It's difficult to think of a more simple application.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Like Paint?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://melissatogo.blogspot.com/2007/02/multimedia-message.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>One size fits all... and contains everything. Media player on Microsoft
>>>>>>Web servers...
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Along with the built-in back doors for cheating the votes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Insertion of USB media could do this. I recently posted an item
>>>>demonstrating that, under Windows, "insert USB" can mean "execute". How
>>>>dumb is that?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Very dumb. But I had to post my point about how a voting machine could
>>>be manipulated... with enough money that is.
>>
>>
>>
>> Have a look:
>>
>> Tresys Nails 'Hardened Security' With Brickwall & Upcoming Razor
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | "But SELinux contains tens of thousands of rules, written in
>> | assembly language. We make implementation easier by turning that
>> | spaghetti code into reference code," he said.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6365/1/
>>
>> Now, bear in mind that the 'source' here is not quite human-readable. With
>> Diebold, there's no source out there /at all/.
>>
>
> That is the scary part. How do we know that Diebold hasn't been bribed
> to put in back doors?
See all the links in the OP. I have a larger list. People don't trust these
machines. In some states, people voted for themselves, yet the ballots
counted a total of 0. In some cases, people's vote was counted 3 times!
Madness. We'll never know the truth. Next time they'll have some paper
backup, if not just the ol' skool system. It's almost as bad as the NHS's
failed project ([i|Micro]Soft], which lost the British taxpayer a total of
about 12 billion pounds. They give digitisation a bad reputation, IMHO. Who
care about Diebold's PR...? They could make reliable ATMs, but voting is
overly subjected to incentives. Too much at stake.
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