Psst? Wanna get a look at some vote-counting software?

[Snellius]

A computer programmer discovers a widely used computerized voting program on a publicly accessible Internet server.

Oct. 30, 2003 | Software used to count the votes in as many as 16 states has been found available on a publicly accessible Internet server. The files, which appear to reveal technical details about how votes are stored in machines made by Sequoia Voting Systems, have been accessible on the site for at least two years.

A computer programmer, who asked not to be named for fear of legal retaliation from Sequoia, says that he came upon the FTP server holding the files on Friday, when he visited the Web site of Jaguar Computer Systems, a computer consulting firm in Southern California that provides technical services to, among other customers, Riverside County. In the 2000 presidential election, Riverside became the first county in the nation to employ touch-screen machines in its precincts. Its machines are made by Sequoia.
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"Sequoia has not made this information publicly available or accessible and we are disturbed that it has been accessed in this inappropriate manner," reads the statement.
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The files install a full working version of the vote-counting system on a user's machine. Because the program does not include source code, the system's innards are not completely laid bare for public review -- which is what happened to Diebold when Bev Harris, an author who's investigated problems with touch-screen voting machines, discovered that company's code on a public FTP site earlier this year. In July, the source code she found was reviewed by scientists at Johns Hopkins and Rice universities, who found that security in Diebold's voting software fell "far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts."

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/10/30/vote_counting_software/index.html

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[GregD]

1. tell me it isn't so!

Someone left the dang barn door open again, and the freaking herd is all over the place again. Someone call the cowboys, the dang code rustlers are at it again. Hee hee hee...