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RaulVB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 05:30 PM
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Even the "National Geographic" told us about the machines
Link below (the whole story is in the page you'll see, just scroll down a bit):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/11/1101_041101_election_voting.html#main
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 05:35 PM
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1. Yep, just like it was predicted in the article
"Computer scientists say they fear a close election in which the results will be called into question.

"Where people are voting electronically, we won't be able to go back to accurately perform a recount of the voters' original intent," said Kohno of the University of San Diego. "
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RaulVB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 05:37 PM
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2. Right...
And this other link shows that the regime is not really eager to attack "cybercrime", hmm...I wonder why.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/10/01/HNchiefresigns_1.html?NETWORK%20FORENSICS
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 05:43 PM
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4. Great find!
Wonder why the admin doesn't care about cyber crime? hhhhmmmmmm, could it be that they don't want to be caught? :freak:

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Stop Shrub Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 05:39 PM
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3. actually check FHM from a month ago
they have a whole story about defcon and in the end of the article it turns into a warning about evoting. Its really weird i think there are a lot of people that are scared of what is going on right now...
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-17-04 05:49 PM
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5. As Ronnie Dugger said in the hearing the other day
Edited on Fri Dec-17-04 05:50 PM by Carolab
when he saw the first article about how easy it was to hack electronic machines, he thought "oh no" and he felt that some Republicans read the same article and thought "hmmmm..."
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