Beacon News: Under Attack, Diebold Fights with Cease & Desists

[BevHarris]

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/6937267.htm

"That notion that Diebold could put the genie back in the bottle is laughable to Jim March, one of the Web-site operators ordered to cease and desist. The Sacramento, Calif., man said Diebold's current strategy will never work because the hacked files are everywhere.

``What they've been doing is playing a global Whack-A-Mole,''he said. ``Look, a site appeared in Italy. Whack! Whack! Whack!'' March said laughing. ``Look, one popped up in Eastern Europe. Whack! Whack! Whack!''

Mike Jacobsen refers to the documents as being hacked and pirated; a more accurate term is "leaked by an insider." I found this interesting:

"Dispelling disinformation is another reason to keep sending out cease-and-desist notices, he said. The longer Diebold's memos and data files are out there, the better the chance people will read them and draw incorrect conclusions."

I was busy drawing what he would call "incorrect conclusions" today, I suppose, when I found a memo that described how an insider can get access to the touch screen with a flag on the motherboard. I didn't know you could put a flag on the motherboard. WTF? I'll verify the memo and then start asking more questions.

I also found a memo discussing in somewhat cagey terms that you can upload illicit memory cards and upload memory cards to unauthorized audit logs -- this, referring to optical scan machines.

Skinner -- would you like me to post them here?

(didn't think so, I'll be polite.)

And you know, just in case anyone slipped in the back door of my memo files, I'll compare it with an independent set.

See ya,

Bev Harris
http://www.blackboxvoting.com

(to completely negate what Diebold said about the FTP site not posing a risk, you'll want to download Chapter 7 at the link above. It's a good read. Heck, take your own copy, post it at your web site under our open source agreement, and let your visitors see it too. It has no memos in it, and no links either, so Diebold has no action it can take.)

[ParanoidPat]

1. drip, Drip, DRIP.......

.....

DRIP!

:evilgrin:
:kick:

[BevHarris]

2. Remember when Nixon said "I am not a crook!"

Here it is: "``We're confident we haven't engaged in any criminal activity,''

(Mike Jacobsen from Diebold)

[ParanoidPat]

4. Yeah, and Arnold is confident.....

....that all those women just loved being 'touched' by a star! LOL!

:kick:

[punpirate]

5. Umm, yeah...

... that's why they're trying to claim copyright protection on internal business memos in order to use the DMCA....

Cheers.

[leftchick]

6. LOL!

that is a quote to remember! :)

[imax2268]

3. Keep up the great work Bev...

:kick:

this is something that just can't go away...or go un-noticed...!

[shirlden]

7. Every paper in Ohio

should be covering this story. I am as ashamed of "my" state as I am of my country. Is every repug a crook? I am beginning to see a pattern here. No sarcasm intended.

:argh:

[PATRICK]

8. in New York

Barely registering as the battle it in fact is the House Dems are opposing Pataki's move to get all Diebold in all the state. I can't even tell how much the Dems are cognizant of the deppth of the danger. Certainly the story is not front page.

it leads me to wonder that the Governor who currently couldn't elected dogcatcher(and a recall here would be a shoo-in) is pretty staunch in favor of Diebold. Exactly how much do any of these esteemed officials really know? Does Pataki see this as career security? Could the Dems be just fighting for advantages themselves not knowing the full scope of the issue?