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November 07, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Hack the Vote
Hack the Vote.
Literally.
I was out grabbing quick bite to eat this morning and happened to see a snippet of this documentary on one of the TV's in the restaurant where I was waiting for my order. Hacking Democracy came out on HBO last Thursday, 11/2, but I hadn't seen a promo for the show until this morning. I've already got my Tivo set to record because it looks like a very interesting history / commentary on electroninc voting machine deficiencies.
I saw a great snippet in the show about how the Diebold system passes all these tests, page after age of approval checkmarks, then on the last page there's one small comment on how computer system penetration testing was not performed. Hummm, this is a computer, right?
One of the most frustrating things is the secrecy part of it. Diebold made everything a proprietary secret. So every time you ask a question, they either ignore you altogether, or say, I'm sorry, that's proprietary. And then when you speculate if something is true, Diebold would say that's not how it works. Well, how does it work? Well, that's a secret. So that was very frustrating. The bottom line of this whole problem is that if we don't have the ability to authenticate our own elections as citizens, we don't live in a democracy.
Bev Harris
Posted by Victor R. Garza on November 7, 2006 11:17 AM
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All voting machines should use free open-source software, not proprietary software. How else are governments going to track the legitimacy of the election process.
I cannot say that it is a confirmed fact, but I believe that all of these voting machines use Microsoft software to build their products. Why do they not use Linux-based software? I am a Linux consultant and have many years experience with it. It is more reliable than Microsoft is and the software is available for auditing purposes, unlike Microsoft or applications using its products.
Using Microsoft products to develop applications for democracy works against democracy.
Wake up people, you need free open-source applications to enforce democracy!
Raymond: Martin, BSc. Scientist and Free software advocate.
How the hell did we get from, Diebold will not tell us anything about the underlying technology, claiming everything is a secret.... to, it must be Microsoft's fault.
Give me a break. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy. And I love Unix more than the next guy. And I love Linux as much as I love Unix.... but blaming this on Microsoft is asinine!
Open-source to enforce Democracy? Ok pal.... go tell that to the millions of Linux and open-source users in the People's Republic of China.
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