[ale] OT: just in case anyone's been hiding under a rock of late...

[Charles Shapiro]

Yeh, this was in the NYT as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12vote.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I 'specially liked the quote:

David Bear, a spokesman for Diebold Election Systems, said the potential
risk existed because the company's technicians had intentionally built the
machines in such a way that election officials would be able to update their
systems in years ahead.

"For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where
you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and
introduce a piece of software," he said. "I don't believe these evil
elections people exist."

Phew. That makes me feel a LOT happier about the elections.

-- CHS

 On 5/12/06, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
>
> "Critical Security Hole Found in Diebold Machines"
>
> http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/06/05/12/1228203.shtml
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> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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