Exposing Diebold's Flaws

Just in case anyone missed seeing this the last time:




The main findings of our study are:

1. Malicious software running on a single voting machine can steal votes with
little if any risk of detection. The malicious software can modify all of the
records, audit logs, and counters kept by the voting machine, so that even
careful forensic examination of these records will find nothing amiss. We have
constructed demonstration software that carries out this vote-stealing attack.

2. Anyone who has physical access to a voting machine, or to a memory
card that will later be inserted into a machine, can install said malicious
software using a simple method that takes as little as one minute. In practice,
poll workers and others often have unsupervised access to the machines.

3. AccuVote-TS machines are susceptible to voting-machine viruses -
computer viruses that can spread malicious software automatically and invisibly
from machine to machine during normal pre- ! and post-election activity. We have
constructed a demonstration virus that spreads in this way, installing our
demonstration vote-stealing program on every machine it infects.

4.
While some of these problems can be eliminated by improving Diebold's software,
others cannot be remedied without replacing the machines' hardware. Changes to
election procedures would also be required to ensure security.

Read the dialogue between Diebold and the scientists here.

Ann Coulter has been "violated"

After typing that post title. . .I may never have sex again!! (shudder) Seriously though, the following post appeared on Man's website today:

Dear Readers,

I've been participating in a charade for nearly eleven years, now. Quite frankly, I'm sick of it. You have all been a part of a sick joke that I began considering shortly after first getting on the air. At first, it was quite interesting to see how people would react when I would use twisted logic and poorly masked bigotry.

But eleven years is a long time to be living a fake life, and I can no longer tolerate this falsity. Even someone as fake as I tires out eventually.

Here's the truth, I don't care what people believe. Jews don't need to be "made perfect" as I so arrogantly proclaimed to Editor & Publisher not a half week ago. I don't even care if people are Muslim. Granted, I don't know much about the religion or the people, but they are people. This is something that we cannot forget, they are in an abhorrent situation. These people are in need of education. Perhaps if we did not participate in causing them misery, they would not hate us so.

In fact, does it really matter whether we are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist, or even Pagan? We are one nation. One. We should not let petty differences separate us, we are all American, and should act in that manner.

And with that, my precious viewers, I bid you adieu. My career as a media figurehead is over.

Signed,

Ann Coulter

While these hackers were in there (AGAIN I shudder!!), they should have also admitted to Andy Coulter's sex-change operation, her Jewish heritage, and her unrequited love for Hilary Rodham Clinton. I'm just sayin'. . .