Totally Amazing Voting Fiasco

[Grok]

This is funny but not hilarious because it deals with voting.  It takes quite a bit of clicking to get to the internal memos of this company that produced and sold closed-source voting systems around the United States.  They have faked demonstrations, lied about security, testing and lots more, and admitted these things in there internal memos that got leaked.

The password on their system is "password", and .. well just read... Here is the original link on SlashDot --
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/10/17/2118218.shtml?tid=153

Now Diebold keeps shutting down websites that post the internal memos, so it's our duty to read them whever available!  Currently they are HERE:  http://thehacktivist.com/bbv/diebold-memos-1.htm

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/

Now an Australian company is doing the right thing in voting:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/11/03/182226.shtml?tid=126&tid=172

Guys, if you ever end up working for a company like Diebold, turn them in to your state attorneys general.

[Grok]

OH MY GOD ... this from the memos:

To: "support"
Subject: alteration of Audit Log in Access
From: "Nel Finberg"
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 23:31:30 -0700
Importance: Normal


Jennifer Price at Metamor (about to be Ciber) has indicated that she can access the GEMS Access database and alter the Audit log without entering a password. What is the position of our development staff on this issue? Can we justify this? Or should this be anathema?
Nel

Reply from Ken Clark, principal engineer for Diebold Election Systems

RE: alteration of Audit Log in Access

To:
Subject: RE: alteration of Audit Log in Access
From: "Ken Clark"
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:55:02 -0700
Importance: Normal
In-reply-to:


Its a tough question, and it has a lot to do with perception. Of course everyone knows perception is reality.

AND THIS:

There might be some clever crypto techniques to make it even harder to change the log (for me, they guy with the password that is). We're talking big changes here though, and at the moment largely theoretical ones. I'd doubt that any of our competitors are that clever.

[Yoni]

I'd doubt that any of our competitors are that clever.

*speechless*