Blackbox voting on Wired

[alfredo]

this news is not going to go away.

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59874,00.html

Jacobsen confirmed that the source code Rubin's team examined was last used in November 2002 general elections in Georgia, Maryland and in counties in California and Kansas.


Within a half-hour of examining the code, Rubin's team found its first red flag. The password was embedded in the source code. "You learn (not to do) that in security 101," said Tadayoshi Kohno, one of the report's co-authors. "The designers didn't follow standard engineering processes."

[Eloriel]

1. THIS IS HUGE!!!!

Jacobsen confirmed that the source code Rubin's team examined was last used in November 2002 general elections in Georgia, Maryland and in counties in California and Kansas.


First they admitted their software had "kinks" -- Bwaaahaaahaaa

Now they're admitting it WAS the same software used in 2002.

UNFREAKINGBELIEVABLE.

Eloriel

[Generic Other]

2. Is "kink" a euphemism for "contested"?

Danger! Danger!