Tech Mag PCWorld named E-Voting #3 on their list of “The 21 Biggest Technology Mistakes of 2006”…
Are electronic voting machines insecure? In May, security researchers discovered a previously unknown backdoor in Diebold’s AccuVote-TS touch-screen voting machines that could allow an attacker to manipulate votes, cause malfunctions, or create a ‘voting virus‘ that spreads from machine to machine–all in under a minute and with little fear of detection. Meanwhile, Princeton researchers also found Diebold’s touch-screen machines could be opened with the same kind of key used for hotel mini-bars, offering easy access to the machine’s memory card. Diebold promised to fix the vulnerability eventually, but also said they weren’t too worried. Why? Because such hacks would require “evil and nefarious election officials”–who don’t exist.
We feel much better now.
Big Mistake: Allowing insecure voting machines anywhere near this country’s electoral process.
Bigger Mistake: Electing Homer Simpson president–which might happen if we keep using these machines.
We’ve come a long way, baby.
And we also take year-end great pride in that folks look back on Princeton’s Diebold Virus Hack as one of the seminal moments in this whole sordid affair. (The machine used in the research was a DRE/touch-screen system supplied to VelvetRevolution.us by a BRAD BLOG source and we then gave it to Princeton for their now-infamous study.)
First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they attack you.
Then you win.
They didn’t say that the mistakes were in order on severity, but E-voting should have been #1 anyway.
The list reconfirms my suspicions about AOL. I never had AOL, but could never understand why anyone would need it. I think a lot of people got it because they thought they wouldn’t be able to use the internet without it. Suckers!
They proved themselves crooks when they sold more accounts then they could possibly provide many years ago. 1034 comments from people who had trouble getting AOL to cancel their account. They run their business like IBM-PC’s used to. Bad product with an advertising blitz.
Come to think of it, that’s how elections are run also.
Electing Homer Simpson president– now that would have been a step up.
Homer Simpson was elected, he just used another name. 🙂
Sounds like PCWorld thinks democracy is #3 in importance.
If your interested in why the election fraud occurred you must know the full PATENTGATE story at https://www.iviewit.tv . IVIEWIT Scroll down the homepage, after the pictures of the car bomb in boynton beach, fl that almost killed the main inventor (of some very cool technologies)and his family. Lawyers from Proskauer Rose and Foley and Larnder are under investigation by the FBI and United States Patent & Trademark Office for allegations of fraud on the USPTO. These lawyers have created a monopolistic patent pooling scheme known as MPEGLA, headed by Proskauer attorney Kenneth Rubenstein, to steal inventions from small ma and pa inventors and perhaps then attempt to kill them.
The inventions of Iviewit were heralded as the “holy grail” of the digital imaging and video world. Also ordered for investigation was former President of the New York Bar Steven C. Krane of Proskauer, along with Rubenstein and Raymond Joao for their part in derailing investigations in New York.
The story now heads to the new congress where representative Nita Lowey has turned the matters over for investigation to John Dingell the incoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Department. Will the new Congress be filled with further corruptions or will the culture of corruption the Bush admin be wiped out, here comes the test case.
Why did they need to have Bush put in power through an election fraud, becasue they needed to block the Iviewit shareholder complaints, from the top down and Bush was the only idiot from Skull & Bones that would aid and abet this scam on our country. Everything from there has been down hill since the fox took control of the henhouse.
Eliot Bernstein
Founder & Inventor
Iviewit Technologies, Inc.
http://www.iviewit.tv
iviewit@iviewit.tv