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Rosco T. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-20-09 06:17 PM
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Sequoia Voting Systems hacks self in foot
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/20/795343/-Sequoia-Voting-Systems-hacks-self-in-foot

Sequoia Voting Systems has inadvertently released the SQL (Structured Query Language) code for its voting databases. The existence of such code appears to violate Federal voting law. Read the announcement after the jump, just as received on the Open Voting Consortium mailing list earlier today.

(snip)

The Linux "strings" command was able to peel it apart. Nedit was able to digest 800meg text files. What was revealed was thousands of lines of MS-SQL source code that appears to control or at least influence the logical flow of the election, in violation of a bunch of clauses in the FEC voting system rulebook banning interpreted code, machine modified code and mandating hash checks of voting system code.

(More at link)


DING! DING! DING!
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-20-09 06:27 PM
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1. Thank you for this update. Hope it comes to something. Recommended.
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MissMarple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-20-09 06:38 PM
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2. badda bimp
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-20-09 06:58 PM
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3. What is underlined means everything - does it not? Are we in a scramble alert.
Edited on Tue Oct-20-09 06:58 PM by peacetalksforall
Could this be our dreams come true - re justice to come?
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Greyskye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-20-09 10:45 PM
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4. K&R for visibility
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