[ale] OT: electronic voting info

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

I somehow doubt the bottom will be reached. (Not that I'm resting any 
easier two states north of you 8-(. I'm not picking on Georgia.) As a 
society we are likely to use Diebold type equipment without proper 
scrutiny and without proper public understanding of the weaknesses until 
something like the Florida chad situation strikes. We will repeat with 
non-technical backslappers/stabbers rushing a technical solution through 
without understanding yet again.

We'll probably survive that also. But the crooks continue to stay ahead.

Off thread, but is it the concencious (sp?) of the list that the 
technically best approach to knowing the trustworthyness of voting 
machines would be a public code audit, followed by tiger team attacks in 
simulated voting? Would this give society the best estimate of the ease of 
election corruption both with and without being detected?

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Tom & JaVonn wrote:

> Doug / Geoffrey:
> 
> As I hear it, the Sec Of State kept adding more requirements, 
> and most importantly would not release her from the DMCA implications 
> (code was retrieved from Diebold's ftp site).
> 
> This list just came into existance yesterday:
> 
> http://www.topica.com/lists/GABBV
> 
> Let's get to the bottom of this thing.
> 
> Tom
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:51:12 -0400
> Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> 
> > Doug McNash wrote:
> > > 
> > > What ever happened to the woman in Gainsville (or was it Cumming) that 
> > > was going to crack the Diebold system.
> > > 
> > > I don't recall seeing any follow-up, or did I miss it?
> > 
> > I haven't heard a thing about it either.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net
> > 
> > Building secure systems inspite of Microsoft
> > 
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