[ale] [OT] Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program

[Greg]

"A trojaned Access"  hahahah !!! I think Access is so mis-used already that
a trojan might be an improvement !!!!  I mean, it is ok for Aunt May's
recipes (with a file card backup) and maybe a small proprietership, but to
count votes ???

Totally unbelievable.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Transam
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 10:56 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 02:14:03PM -0400, Joe Steele wrote:
> > Since the issue of electronic voting security has been discussed on
> > the ale list in the past, I forward the following link for anyone
> > interested who has not seen it yet.
>
> > http://www.blackboxvoting.com/scoop/S00065.htm
>
> This article is shocking!  This process is so incredibly vulnerable to
> massive changing of votes by anybody without scruples (easy to find around
> politicians) that it is both outrageous and, I think, unconstitutional.
>
> There is, essentially, no audit trail nor any reliable way to go back
> to the "original data" to check for tallying errors.  The fact that the
> default password is published is yet another level of vulnerability.
>
> Also, it is trivial for someone to slip in a Trojaned version of Access
> or for it just to screw up due to a bug.  Hmmm.  What if it was in use
> in 2000?  Gore was anti-Microsoft and Bush pro-Microsoft.  Would Microsoft
> have provided an Access "update" that had a Trojan in it to move a certain
> percentage of Gore votes to Bush?  Talk about being above the law!
>
> > --Joe
>
> Bob
>
> "Microsoft: Unsafe at any clock speed!"
>    -- Bob Toxen 10/03/2002
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