Monkey Changes Election Results

[annuin]

And no, that's not a pun on Dubya.

Apparantly Diebold's voting machines can be hacked, by a monkey, or any other person with virtually no computer skills. Which of course makes it a lot easier for those people who do have skills to fiddle around with stuff.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133214,00.html

Comments

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

Yep - they've been talking about this for at least a year, probably more. There are so many leaked internal company memos about the security holes it's just not funny, plus all the industry and independent studies have shown how vulnerable the system is. Going to be an interesting November.

[trejkaz.livejournal.com]

The Australian system is probably going the same way.

It started off as open source, and soaked up all the media attention. After obtaining comments and bugfixes from the community, then they closed the source off and told the community to fuck off. In a year we'll be having the same kind of story show up, when someone finds a vulnerability that would have been fixed if only they hadn't closed it.

[daskreestof.livejournal.com]

How can anyone believe that something microsoft would be secure, and not republican leaning?

Don't be suprised if neither bush nor kerry win, but some how Bill Gates takes in a landslide victory.