Re: Georgia: 22,000 Voting Machines Got a Program Fix, Right Beforethe Election

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice idea, John, but IBM just doesn't have the balls to do it.

It seems that *ONLY Apple has that kind of courage any more...

Heard of any M$ layoffs lately?

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On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> Saw this on another list,  thought it might be of interest to programmers.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Georgia:
> 22,000 Voting Machines Got a Program Fix, Right Before the Election.
>
> Black Box Voting
> Did anyone look at the source code?
> None of your business!
> No one certified the patches  "No one is explaining the files in a folder
> called "rob-georgia"
>
> Read the whole story.
>
> http://www.blackboxvoting.com/georgia-fix.html
>
> <SNIP>
> ... identified the very real risk of an attack on voting machines through
> the Windows operating system..  Did any of the "rob-georgia" patch files
> from Diebold's unprotected FTP site make their way onto any of these cards?
> <SNIP>
>
> Windows,  There's that name again.
> No mention of iSeries.
>
>
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