OT: Driving a car just got more dangerous

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:26 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: OT: Driving a car just got more dangerous
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 26 November 2003 09:39 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
> 
> >> So where is the ctrl-alt-del key sequence for a car?
> >> We might need one soon.
> 
> > Oh boy, more embedded XP: 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34175.html
> 
> Sorry, broke my own rule about summarizing web references:  
> The Register 
> reports that Diebold ATMs were hit by the Nachi worm in August.
"At both affected institutions the ATMs began aggressively scanning for other vulnerable machines, 
generating anomalous waves of network traffic that tripped the banks' intrusion detection systems, 
resulting in the infected machines being automatically cut off, Diebold executives said."
So the question is how do we know that only 2 locations were infected. It is possible some
banks don't catch this kind of anomalous traffic. So there may well be infected ATMs out there we
don't know about. 

> 
> Diebold, by the way, are the people who are bringing 
> electronic voting to the 
> U.S., and have tried to suppress evidence that their system is 
> not secure.
> (http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=diebold for more)
Well it goes beyond just not being secure. There are several issues involved.
Among others they have been found to be not functioning, have needed to be
fixed during an election, have had fixes applied and not had the fixes certified by
the local elections board, have taken out machines during voting and applied patches
at Diebold company locations, there is no paper trail. There are also indications
that some election results are either invalid, recorded improperly, or have been erased
by people both in the election board and in Diebold employees. There was even one
machine that recorded a *negative* vote of something like 2000 for(against?) Gore in
Florida in the 2000 election. I've seen lots of different types of voting methods
in my 25 years of voting, but I've never seen an option to vote against one candidate.
How does one cast a negative vote? Oh yeah and the CEO of Diebold is quite proud of 
saying he will deliver elections to Republican candidates. IIRC

Sorry for the rant, I guess someone pushed a button. ;)