The ones that were at the heart of a controversy almost ten years ago when it turned out the CEO of Diebold promised to deliver Ohio to George W. Bush in an upcoming election? And which were discovered to be vulnerable to a number of hacking attacks? The ones whose reputation was so tarnished that the entire division was renamed to escape it?
Well, it turns out that they're even more insecure than was determined in the middle 2000s -- according to researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory, any idiot with $25 worth of spare parts and almost no technical know-how can subvert them.
Maybe it's time to give up on electronic voting stations and go straight to smart-phone-based voting apps...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Well, it turns out that they're even more insecure than was determined in the middle 2000s -- according to researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory, any idiot with $25 worth of spare parts and almost no technical know-how can subvert them.
Maybe it's time to give up on electronic voting stations and go straight to smart-phone-based voting apps...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.