The Key to the Castle

It is way past time for the funeral of electronic voting in general and of Diebold electronic voting machines in particular.
If it wasn't bad enough that Diebold resisted independent testing of their machines, or that one security gap opens the machines' systems to anybody with a little knowledge and a cheap part from CompUSA, or that some boffins at Princeton found the Diebold boxes vulnerable to "extremely serious [hacker] attacks".
Set aside for a moment the dark suspicions that arise because Diebold's CEO was also Bush's campaign chair in Ohio, "committed" to delivering Ohio for Bush.
Here is the icing on the cake, the cherry on the sundae, the filial on the flagpole.
Diebold advertises that the memory on their machines is protected by a lock and key and its true, its just not very much protection as the key is a standard piece used on mini-bars, and jukeboxes. A standard part easily purchased over the internet.
If there were more at risk than freedom and the Constitution we'd be alarmed.
As it is, we know that other people are worrying about so we can
StayNaked
jd
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An ad addendum. CNN has been doing a nice job covering this story. Below is a Youtube posting of two CNN stories concerning e-voting.



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