Pass Me a Pencil
Via Digg.com, by way of the Huffington Post, Marty Kaplan shows us all How to Hack a Diebold Voting Machine. This is so beautiful in its simplicity that literally anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of computers can do this. Whether your flash drive has any data on it or not, to so easily override election data is amazing considering how important the information is to the nation.
One half of my brain starts thinking of conspiracy theories, but the other contends that our administration, as a whole, is not that subtle, nor as tech-savvy. Besides, any corporation actually trying to create a voting system with any integrity would have a tough time passing the notion off to congress. The time it would take to explain the safeguards would slow lawmaking to a standstill not unlike a filibuster. These guys just don't get it!
Pass me a pencil…
August 29th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
I don’t know if you are suggesting that the administration is too stupid to think of fudging that data because stupid though he may be, I think if he had the will to get the votes on his side, there would be a way for him to hire someone on the side to get in there. I just don’t think he did that because he was too confidant. Whether or not someone did hack in is seperate from the government although it would explain why in the 2004 election, he was so confidant he would win. It is scary that just anyone could get in and change data but that’s the problem with collecting points of view from any large group, be it with the government or not. On another note, they should change the technology company or come up with something more safe now that this is out.