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Monday, August 6, 2007

Make the E-voting System’s Password “1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8”? That’s so Obvious It’s Genius!

If one set out to design electronic voting machines that undermine voter confidence and threaten the integrity and accuracy of the whole election process, it would be hard to outdo those of Diebold Election Systems, if a new analysis is to be believed.
The California Secretary of State has finally released the source-code review portion of [...]

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Friday, August 3, 2007

AccuVote? Bit of an Oxymoron, Don’t You Think?

With the presidential primary approaching, Diebold Election Systems is finally developing a voter-verified paper trail–of bad press. Earlier this week, the company made headlines when a team of investigators found the company made headlines when a team of investigators found another government-ordered study that found its optical-scanning machines to be flawed as well.

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Cisco CEO Apparently a Card-Carrying Member of the Kiss Army

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What Did You Expect? They All Run Windows…

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has finally released the results of an unprecedented top-to-bottom review of the state’s electronic voting machines and, what do you know, they were all easily hacked. Researchers at the University of California discovered more than a dozen vulnerabilities in voting systems manufactured by Diebold Election Systems, Hart InterCivic and [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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