I'm impatient about.... idiots.
“While well-intentioned, this type of exercise may only drive fear for the voting public,” said a spokesman for a company that makes voting machines.
What was she speaking about? Why, it's a successful effort to hack into voting machines, as reported by MSNBC.
By security experts? No, by undergraduates in a course.
At MIT or Caltech? No, at Rice.
One of the groups not only hacked in, they hid their hack so well that it survived two audits. Punch line: the same company spokeswoman then had the b@lls to comment that there's never been evidence of such fraud.
From the Chronicle of Higher Education. (A tip of the Hatlow hat to our friend who calls himself The Hat.)
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Want your vote to count twice?
Posted by ImPatient Dave at 9:04 PM
Labels: election 2008
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