Anybody?
A lot of talk this morning about voting machine security. Somebody made the point that nobody has ever hacked into a voting system in a manner that others might detect. (No, this is NOT a tautology) I wasnt sure I understood, but it seemed that there was something analogus to a checksum routine that would detect if software had been altered. Did I come close to understanding. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Professor of Psychology and Ethololgy, Clark University (nthompson at clarku.edu) Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM (nick at redfish.com) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20061106/414caf55/attachment.html |
I found this overview to be very informative, rather alarming, and
only as technical as minimally needed. On arstechnica website: http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars Also available as a free, PDF: (PDF Link) http://arstechnica.com/etc/How_to_steal_an_election-ArsTechnica.pdf Also, IIRCC, there have been plenty of anomolous results with assorted electronic voting machines, but no-one has been able to prove if they were the result of hack attempts, or just the result of buggy software / poor handling. ~~James http://www.turtlezero.com (JA-86) On 11/6/06, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote: > Anybody? > > A lot of talk this morning about voting machine security. Somebody made the > point that nobody has ever hacked into a voting system in a manner that > others might detect. (No, this is NOT a tautology) I wasnt sure I > understood, but it seemed that there was something analogus to a checksum > routine that would detect if software had been altered. Did I come close to > understanding. > > Nick > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Professor of Psychology and Ethololgy, Clark University > (nthompson at clarku.edu) > Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM (nick at redfish.com) |
As someone who doesn't have a vote here, I'm appalled by how little those
who do have a vote care about it being stolen. See http://www.harpers.org/ExcerptNoneDare.html for a discussion of the media's lack of coverage of the Ohio thefts. R On 11/6/06, James Steiner <gregortroll at gmail.com> wrote: > > I found this overview to be very informative, rather alarming, and > only as technical as minimally needed. > > On arstechnica website: > > http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars > > Also available as a free, PDF: (PDF Link) > > http://arstechnica.com/etc/How_to_steal_an_election-ArsTechnica.pdf > > Also, IIRCC, there have been plenty of anomolous results with assorted > electronic voting machines, but no-one has been able to prove if they > were the result of hack attempts, or just the result of buggy software > / poor handling. > > ~~James > http://www.turtlezero.com > (JA-86) > > On 11/6/06, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote: > > Anybody? > > > > A lot of talk this morning about voting machine security. Somebody made > the > > point that nobody has ever hacked into a voting system in a manner that > > others might detect. (No, this is NOT a tautology) I wasnt sure I > > understood, but it seemed that there was something analogus to a > checksum > > routine that would detect if software had been altered. Did I come > close to > > understanding. > > > > Nick > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Professor of Psychology and Ethololgy, Clark University > > (nthompson at clarku.edu) > > Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM (nick at redfish.com) > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20061106/ea5720a2/attachment.html |
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