FL-13: Sarasota Worm Virus Attack Story Followed Up by MSM

[BradBlog]

FL-13: Sarasota Worm Virus Attack Story Followed Up by MSM
Election Supervisor Refuses to Comment; Jennings Camp Says Documents Were Turned Over; Why the Hell Are We Running Our Elections This Way?

A number of mainstream news outlets (for a pleasant change) followed up on our report yesterday on the SQL Slammer Worm virus which hit Sarasota County's database network on the first day of Early Voting last year, wreaking havoc which disallowed voting for two hours in the now-contest FL-13 U.S. House election between Christine Jennings (D) and Vern Buchanan (R). No telling what got into the MSM'ers, but perhaps it's because we ran the story at Computerworld first instead of here at the "dreaded" and "unreliable" blog.

Either way, several outlets picked up the story which "caused a stir Wednesday," and even advanced it an aspect or two (see the link below for details), leading us to opine:

We've allowed small, underfunded governmental entities --- such as the thousands of county election offices around the country --- to build the precious and precarious machinery of democracy on top of extremely sensitive, virus prone, high-tech, mission-critical IT hardware and software which even well-funded, highly-trained experts in the private sector have enough trouble keeping secure and online.

What must America be thinking to believe that these types of incredibly complicated systems can be properly maintained and secured by small time, local governmental officials who have absolutely no idea how these systems even work --- or don't --- in the first place?

FULL STORY/NEW DEVELOPEMENTS:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4567

[bleever]

1. Dreaded and unreliable

election results must become a thing of the past, if America is to have its rightful future.

[Greyhound]

2. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but slammer is a windoze worm.

Am I to understand that we use the least secure, slowest, most bloated, OS on earth in voting machines?
:dunce::crazy:

[Wiley50]

3. Big change from nashville two years ago

You worked your ass off to make it happen

Thanks for all you do