Janet Hawtin wrote:
- digital voting systems
Quotation of the day for June 16, 2006 (quotationoftheday_request@rogers.com) said:
"For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software," he said. "I don't believe these evil elections people exist."
- David Bear, a spokesman for Diebold Election Systems, a
controversial maker of voting machines, quoted in the New York
Times, May 12, 2006
[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12vote.html?ex=1305086400&en=5b3554a76aad524a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss]
These are the (naive) people we are trusting with our secure, black box solutions. And when they finally get audited and even the outside of the blackbox is shown to be flawed, they still think integrity (Enron? Worldcom? HIH?) will protect a fallible system.
DRM. A future determined by tampered technology. With no traces.
re, N
Cool Thanks OK I'm going to do one simplified general quiz and hopefully some separate ones.
cheers
Janet