In een quasi-democratisch land als de VS zijn elektronische stemmachines sinds jaar en dag stof voor verhitte discussies. Als je eerst even hier in het Zwarte Bos, of hier bij Sargasso leest, dan kan ik de introductie van deze post skippen.
Gelezen?
Kijkk nu eens hier bij Slashdot (vooral de comments), dan kan ik hier de rest van de post ook meteen skippen. Ik heb er namelijk geen woorden voor.
De reacties op de reacties zijn ook koddig, niet?
"Jeffrey Dean was convicted early '90s of 23 counts of computer-aided embezzlement. He was a computer consultant for a large Seattle law firm and defrauded them of about $450,000 in what US courts called a "sophisticated computer-aided scheme". In a statement to Seattle PD, he claimed he needed the money because Canadians were blackmailing him; in that country, he'd gotten into a fistfight and the other guy had died. (Yes, I've seen the police report.)"
Ok, aside from being a convicted felon who comitted the very kind of crimes one should be worried about someone pulling in this situation... Usually, rational people being duly diligent about security would not trust someone who had anything in their background that would make them succeptible to BLACKMAIL.
This is some sort of goddamned perverse JOKE, RIGHT?!!!
En het argument "Ja, maar hun Pinapparaten doen het wel goed" wordt ook onderuitgehaald:
I am in the banking business, in IT. I work in downtown Manhattan, at a bank that probably has some of your money in it.
When the voting systems thing hit I got interested in them. They are a vendor we do business with and I started informally asking questions around the watercooler, seeing if the old guys have any stories. For instance, have we ever had security issues with their equipment, etc?
We have. And the stories. Oh, my god, the stories. It's enough to bring tears to your eyes. They've blown it in such amazing, over-the-top ways, you wouldn't believe me if I told you. What I take away from all this is that the only reason many financial institutions stay in business is the (ongoing) laziness of criminals.
So in other words, worry about their ATMs. Worry about anybody who does business with these guys. Before "paperless voting" Diebold was just another bunch of well-connected old white men swindling their buddies with 3rd rate code. But now they're just plain shady.
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1. Dave commented on 2005/11/30, 14.39 h:
Dat artikeltje iss mild, het zijn idd de comments die het em doen. Die CVtjes van die lui zijn heel aardig. Maar uiteindelijk doet een stemmachine precies wat je van een stemmachine verwacht. Hij stemt automatisch, zonder dat er mensenhaand aan te pas komt.