Wired: Students Fight E-Vote Firm (woo-HOO!)

[NashVegas]

A group of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has launched an "electronic civil disobedience" campaign against voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems.

The students are protesting efforts by Diebold to prevent them and other website owners from linking to some 15,000 internal company memos that reveal the company was aware of security flaws in its e-voting software for years but sold the faulty systems to states anyway. The memos were leaked to voting activists and journalists by a hacker who broke into an insecure Diebold FTP server in March.

Go go go!

[joeybee12]

1. Hooray! Students doing what those damn politicains should be...

...investigating!

[MaineDem]

2. Do you have a link?

Thanks.

THis is good!

[Tuttle]

3. Link

WIRED

Tut-tut

[NashVegas]

4. Doh!

Sorry, it's early =)

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60927,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

[NashVegas]

5. topping - because i can

these kids deserve a big hand

[GinaMaria]

6. kudos

Sending out encouragement and respect for these students!

[belab13]

7. Anything to get the word out.

[Judi Lynn]

8. They can only help!

"If I were Diebold I wouldn't claim copyright protection; I'd claim I hadn't written the memos," he said. "They knowingly created a system that doesn't even have a semblance of security. And then they pass it off on the American public in the name of modernization."

Thanks for posting this article.

[TrogL]

9. Slashdot's covering it

their links:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/22/0142252&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=126&tid=153&tid=172&tid=99 - slashdot's article

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0310/S00237.htm

http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold.html

[TrogL]

11. Slashdot's article about Riverside CA 'logic and accuracy test

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/22/0057244&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=126&tid=99

see also website

http://www.exit.com/RiversideVoteTest/

[Nottingham]

10. Oh this is AWESOME! I love those kids

:bounce: This could be the biggest story

[Oilwellian]

12. Does anyone know...

what the electronic civil disobedience campaign entails? Good for these kids. :D

[NashVegas]

16. Circle Jerking - Sort of

But Luke Smith, a sophomore, said students are planning to bypass that threat by hosting the memos on different machines. Each time one machine is shut down by Diebold, they will move the memos to another machine, passing them from student to student.

...

Smith said his group plans to launch a campaign this week to recruit more students to participate in the revolt.

"We're advocating freedom of information and open-source standards," he said. "If there's anything the public has an inherent right to look in on, it's voting technology. That's why we're pushing this."

[bpilgrim]

13. Search memos online at GFP ---------------------------- LINK

http://news.globalfreepress.com/search.cgi

psst... pass the word ;->

peace

[Mixxster]

14. I'm very frustrated that people are not more upset about this.

I'm so glad these kids care enough about the democratic process to take a stand.

[shawn703]

15. Does this have anything to do with Digivote?

I noticed a lot of scans for port 3223 vulnerabilities on the firewall here. I looked up the port and it says it is for Digivote (unless some new trojan horse also utilizes that port.)