Newsweek calls new Diebold security debacle "fast track to fraud" !

[Amaryllis]

Bradblog:
DIEBOLD DISASTER: NEWSWEEK JUMPS IN, COVERS LATEST E-VOTING DEBACLE!
Company Spokesman/Dead-Ender David Bear Running Out of Spin

"If Diebold had set out to build a system as insecure as they possibly could, this would be it," says Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University computer-science professor and elections-security expert.

Things aren't looking good for our friends at Diebold. Even NEWSWEEK is finally paying attention as Steven Levy files a report for this week's issue on the story we broke two weeks ago...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002854.htm

Link to Newsweek story:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12888600/site/newsweek/

"Diebold Election Systems spokesperson David Bear says Hursti's findings do not represent a fatal vulnerability in Diebold technology, but simply note the presence of a feature that allows access to authorized technicians to periodically update the software. If it so happens that someone not supposed to use the machine—or an election official who wants to put his or her thumb on the scale of democracy—takes advantage of this fast track to fraud, that's not Diebold's problem. " throwing out a 'what if' that's premised on a basis of an evil, nefarious person breaking the law," says Bear."

Of course, we all know that there are NO evil, nefarious people out there who would be motivated to take advantage of this "fast track to fraud." Can we think of ANYONE who could POSSIBLY be motivated to do such a thing?

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. How about a link to Newsweek as it is THEIR story?

eom

[Amaryllis]

3. Added to original post. I was still updating post. I linked to Brad

because his commentary is always worth reading.

[Botany]

2. Really? No Kidding?

Just because one Diebold machine in Volusia County, FL produced
16,000 votes for bush after the state was called for Gore by ABC, CBS, &
NBC and then all the fun started ..... now Newsweek says something is up?

Way to jump on the story!

[Amaryllis]

4. Give 'em a break, Botany - they are only six years behind, after all!

[Botany]

5. I live in Columbus, OH

And sometimes I feel like I am screaming into the wind;
"They are stealing elections damn it. I saw it with my own eyes
and heard it with my own ears. Wake the f*** up!"

BTW We still can not see the data from Alaska 2004 ....
Company secrets .... so we had precincts with 200 %
turn outs and 120,000+ votes that seem odd .....

It is not just Florida or Ohio it is a national cancer.

[Amaryllis]

8. You are not alone in feeling the urge to scream from the rooftops

what is so blatantly obvious. so many seem to have Rip Van Winkle syndrome.

[NJ_Lib]

6. Good Morning Newsweek, you've slept for a long...

... time... Can I get you a cup of coffee?

[goclark]

7. Now let's pray we can WAKE UP America

Funny how they slept on this story so that there is little or no time to do something about it.