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Noory has been an apologist, true, but I called in to the show once when they had a former hacker (now works on Internet security) on the show, about voting on the Internet, and they were both totally against that.
Based on the facts about what you can and cannot do with computers and the Internet, Noory gets it.
This isn't about any loopy theories anyway, that's just what the opposition tries to paint.
It's about incremental opportunity- no one was minding the store. The whole voting system just slid further into the black hole of secret vote counting, because no one cared to pay attention.
"Gee, that wasn't good, anyone pay attention to our programming here?"
"No?"
"Well, let's just let that one ride. Cheaper not to fix it. And if we have to fix anything, well, we'll just leave this convenient back door in there, no one will notice..."
"Hey, if we control the certification process, we can slap just any old code in there, can't we?"
"Ooops, can't have anyone look at what we didn't do, so now it has to be proprietary, or we're going to have to fix it, and that will cost us profits."
"How do you sell a product? Years of lobbying the people who buy it, the Secretaries of State and all those county officials, who don't really know anything about it, and look, no real oversight in place, cool, profits in the bag."
"Hey, those computer scientists? Common', we've been your friendly vendor for years, trust us. The new kids on the block? Hey, we've been your friends for years, paid for the drinks, a new lap top here and there,....."
"Certification standards? No sweat, just make sure they don't even meet the minimal, normal standards for computer security, then we won't have to re-engineer anything. Cool. Lots of inside 'friends" on that one, lobbying those state and county official appointed to have input on the standards paid off."
Unfortunately, this whole mess is just 'business as usual' for government procurement contractors.
Instead of producing a product that protect the integrity of the vote, they play the "game."
Just look up the story of the ITAA's involvement in this and you'll see how it's done.
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