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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:37 AM
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Wired: Students Fight E-Vote Firm (woo-HOO!)
A group of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has launched an "electronic civil disobedience" campaign against voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems.

The students are protesting efforts by Diebold to prevent them and other website owners from linking to some 15,000 internal company memos that reveal the company was aware of security flaws in its e-voting software for years but sold the faulty systems to states anyway. The memos were leaked to voting activists and journalists by a hacker who broke into an insecure Diebold FTP server in March.

Go go go!
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:45 AM
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1. Hooray! Students doing what those damn politicains should be...
...investigating!
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:48 AM
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2. Do you have a link?
Thanks.

THis is good!
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Tuttle Donating Member (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:49 AM
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3. Link
WIRED

Tut-tut
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 06:52 AM
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4. Doh!
Sorry, it's early =)

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60927,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:52 AM
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5. topping - because i can
these kids deserve a big hand
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GinaMaria Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 08:56 AM
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6. kudos
Sending out encouragement and respect for these students!
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belab13 Donating Member (333 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 09:00 AM
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7. Anything to get the word out.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 09:14 AM
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8. They can only help!
"If I were Diebold I wouldn't claim copyright protection; I'd claim I hadn't written the memos," he said. "They knowingly created a system that doesn't even have a semblance of security. And then they pass it off on the American public in the name of modernization."

Thanks for posting this article.
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 09:17 AM
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9. Slashdot's covering it
Edited on Wed Oct-22-03 09:28 AM by TrogL
their links:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/22/0142252&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=126&tid=153&tid=172&tid=99 - slashdot's article

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0310/S00237.htm

http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold.html
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 09:31 AM
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11. Slashdot's article about Riverside CA 'logic and accuracy test
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/22/0057244&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=126&tid=99

see also website

http://www.exit.com/RiversideVoteTest/
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Nottingham Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 09:19 AM
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10. Oh this is AWESOME! I love those kids
:bounce: This could be the biggest story
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Oilwellian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 09:50 AM
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12. Does anyone know...
what the electronic civil disobedience campaign entails? Good for these kids. :D
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 04:46 PM
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16. Circle Jerking - Sort of
But Luke Smith, a sophomore, said students are planning to bypass that threat by hosting the memos on different machines. Each time one machine is shut down by Diebold, they will move the memos to another machine, passing them from student to student.

...

Smith said his group plans to launch a campaign this week to recruit more students to participate in the revolt.

"We're advocating freedom of information and open-source standards," he said. "If there's anything the public has an inherent right to look in on, it's voting technology. That's why we're pushing this."

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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 09:58 AM
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13. Search memos online at GFP ---------------------------- LINK
http://news.globalfreepress.com/search.cgi

psst... pass the word ;->

peace
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Mixxster Donating Member (653 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 10:40 AM
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14. I'm very frustrated that people are not more upset about this.
I'm so glad these kids care enough about the democratic process to take a stand.
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shawn703 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-22-03 11:03 AM
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15. Does this have anything to do with Digivote?
I noticed a lot of scans for port 3223 vulnerabilities on the firewall here. I looked up the port and it says it is for Digivote (unless some new trojan horse also utilizes that port.)
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