We Kind Of Knew This All Along

I'll have more to say about this later, especially in connection w/ the Diebold problems in Maryland's primary this week, but I'm swamped right now. However, as my brilliant friend Elizabeth says:

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http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/

An indepedent study conducted by Princeton University has proven that Diebold voting machines can EASILY and QUICKLY be hacked. "For example, an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates. An attacker could also create malicious code that spreads automatically and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities — a voting-machine virus. We have constructed working demonstrations of these attacks in our lab."


I've been playing around with the idea getting folks to each buy a share of Diebold stock and then show up at the shareholders' meeting. May be time to flesh that out.