{"id":206,"date":"2006-05-10T14:23:33","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T19:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/206"},"modified":"2006-05-10T14:54:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T19:54:19","slug":"well-this-is-certainly-a-big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/206","title":{"rendered":"Well This Is Certainly A Big Surprise&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/search\/ci_3804675\">Via The Association for Computing Machinery tech newsletter<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>  \t \tVoting Glitch Said to Be &#8216;Disastrous&#8217;<br \/>\nInside Bay Area (CA) (05\/10\/06) Hoffman, Ian <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recently discovered vulnerability in Diebold&#8217;s touch-screen voting  machines has election officials scrambling to understand and contain the  risk.  A hacker with minimal specialized knowledge of Diebold&#8217;s system and  an off-the-shelf component could load software onto the machine to disable  it or alter vote counts in a matter of minutes.  &quot;This one is worse than  any of the others I&#8217;ve seen.  It&#8217;s more fundamental,&quot; said Douglas Jones, a  University of Iowa computer scientist.  &quot;In the other ones, we&#8217;ve been  arguing about the security of the locks on the front door,&quot; he said.  &quot;Now  we find there&#8217;s no back door.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No back door eh?&nbsp; Alter the vote count in minutes eh?&nbsp; With off the shelf components eh?&nbsp; I&#8217;m just&#8230;shocked&#8230;shocked I tell you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Paper.&nbsp; Ballots.&nbsp; Paper.&nbsp; Ballots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via The Association for Computing Machinery tech newsletter &#8230; Voting Glitch Said to Be &#8216;Disastrous&#8217; Inside Bay Area (CA) (05\/10\/06) Hoffman, Ian A recently discovered vulnerability in Diebold&#8217;s touch-screen voting machines has election officials scrambling to understand and contain the risk. A hacker with minimal specialized knowledge of Diebold&#8217;s system and an off-the-shelf component could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}