Pass Me a Pencil
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006Via Digg.com, by way of the Huffington Post, Marty Kaplan shows us all How to Hack a Diebold Voting Machine. This is so beautiful in its simplicity that literally anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of computers can do this. Whether your flash drive has any data on it or not, to so easily override election data is amazing considering how important the information is to the nation.
One half of my brain starts thinking of conspiracy theories, but the other contends that our administration, as a whole, is not that subtle, nor as tech-savvy. Besides, any corporation actually trying to create a voting system with any integrity would have a tough time passing the notion off to congress. The time it would take to explain the safeguards would slow lawmaking to a standstill not unlike a filibuster. These guys just don't get it!
Pass me a pencil…