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Re: Voting machine security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mheyman@gmail.com)
Mon Aug 18 12:08:39 2008
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:35:11 -0400
From: "mheyman@gmail.com" <mheyman@gmail.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <48A5A772.1080503@tla.org>
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:57 AM, John Ioannidis <ji@tla.org> wrote:
> This just about sums it up: http://xkcd.com/463/
>
Only slightly better then suggested by the comic. McAfee anti-virus
software was on the servers, not the DRE voting machines themselves.
>From <http://www.middletownjournal.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/08/06/ddn080608votingweb.html>
Premier spokesman Chris Riggall had not seen the
counterclaim [breach-of-contract lawsuit counterclaim
filed by the Ohio Secretary of State] and declined
comment on it. But he blamed the vote tabulation
problems on McAfee anti-virus software on computer
servers.
-Michael Heyman
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