Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Duh!



yet another report detailing the security flaws of electronic voting machines:

Expert warns that electronic voting systems are vulnerable, flawed

A computer science expert criticized electronic voting systems planned for the November election as highly vulnerable and flawed, saying on Wednesday a backup paper system is the only short-term solution to avoid another disputed presidential election.

''On a spectrum of terrible to very good, we are sitting at terrible,'' Aviel D. Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, told the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. ''Not only have the vendors not implemented security safeguards that are possible, they have not even correctly implemented the ones that are easy.''

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how many times does something like this have to be published before people get the message? computer experts have said over and OVER and OVER again that these systems are not secure.

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