Like my friend Derek, I’ve not paid too much attention to all the hoo-haa about Diebold and the election system hacking news reported on various sites in the last few weeks. Curiosity (or boredom) got the best of him and he read Ars Technica’s article on the topic today.
Holy crap, folks. Go read it, even if you don’t understand 100% of it.
Right now, the only thing standing in the way of the kind of wholesale undetectable election theft that this article has outlined is the possibility that DREs were forced onto the public too rapidly for election thieves to really learn to exploit them in this cycle. There’s always a gap between when a security vulnerability is exposed and when it’s exploited, so let’s all hope and pray that November 7 falls within that time window.
