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Dan Rathers on CNN Voting Machine Fraud

submitted by notarobot

1 decade 3 years 7 months 4 weeks ago

CNN interview with Dan Rathers about his in-depth reporting on voting machines and their security and reliability. (Originally posted to YT, August 2007)

Much thanks to Joedirt for bringing up the issue.

http://videosift.com/video/Dan-Rathers-on-CNN-Voting-Machine-Fraud

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Of course the machines are not secure, or reliable.

There's no single point of failure in the security setting, and the posture is fucking horrendous.

The machines are not being controlled in a MAC or RBAC setup. I get the feeling that the physical security is lacking in a huge way. Corporations are being relied upon too heavily to sort this stuff out. Diebold was a joke, and still is.

These machines should be made in the United States, and the United States only. This is not some nationalistic joke. It is a United States issue, and should be solved by resources based in the United States.

I'm sure someone will say, "if you make it open source then anyone can make these machines." To which I say only certified machines approved by rigorous process will be allowed to be used in the United States votes. Some very good alternative software have come from well meaning open source communities. Multiple flavors of Linux come to mind.

I'm sure we would need to put in place some very strong punishment for fraud, while not being too tyrannical.

Here's a list of things I would start with.

Multiple Independent QA Tests

Multiple Independent Security Certification Tests

Multiple Independent Source Code Reviews

Secure Source Code

No Buffer Overflows

No Format String Flaws

Full Disclosure

Source Code Released to the Public. From Firmware to Operating System code.

Manufacture Process made Transparent

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