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Matt Collins
10-05-2010, 08:42 PM
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/debonis/2010/10/hacker_infiltration_ends_dc_on.html
Anti Federalist
10-05-2010, 08:45 PM
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/debonis/2010/10/hacker_infiltration_ends_dc_on.html

Good.

The last freakin' thing in the world we need more of, is electronic voting.
Agorism
10-05-2010, 08:48 PM
nice find

Nothing is more secure than electronic voting. It's just like mining gold in the everquest game.
specsaregood
10-09-2010, 10:38 PM
nice find

Nothing is more secure than electronic voting. It's just like mining gold in the everquest game.

Please, this demonstration was designed to fail. They left the default admin password in place, allowed a shell injection attack and left a file on the server with a list of 900 pin #s with the voter id.

If they didn't purposefully want this to fail, then they hired the most incompetent people they could possibly find.
Pericles
10-10-2010, 06:42 PM
Good.

The last freakin' thing in the world we need more of, is electronic voting.
How many computer nerds do you know that are left wing statists? It might be an interesting turn to let us have more votes for a change,
Anti Federalist
10-10-2010, 06:52 PM
How many computer nerds do you know that are left wing statists? It might be an interesting turn to let us have more votes for a change,

LoL, nice twist on the POV.

:D
Jeremy
10-10-2010, 06:52 PM
How many computer nerds do you know that are left wing statists? It might be an interesting turn to let us have more votes for a change,

http://forum.i3d.net/attachments/battlefield-series-news/943198618d1263840017-no-console-bad-company-2-facepalm_implied.jpg
mczerone
10-10-2010, 06:59 PM
Please, this demonstration was designed to fail. They left the default admin password in place, allowed a shell injection attack and left a file on the server with a list of 900 pin #s with the voter id.

If they didn't purposefully want this to fail, then they hired the most incompetent people they could possibly find.

There are very simple ways to have secure voting with personal receipts and anonymous ID verification.

The real trick is programming in the "back door" access in such a way so that the mechanism looks secure on the outside, but can be cracked in nanoseconds by the NSA.

Although this is gov't contract work so "they hired the most incompetent people they could possibly find" probably isn't far removed from the truth.