New California e-voting measure uses hackers to test voting machine security
Seriously, voting machines, if we're going to insist on electronic ones, should get hammered harder than an unprotected Windows box on the public internet, before they're deployed, and the companies that make them should welcome such attacks and then immediately fix those vulnerabilities. I mean, would you put yourself or your friends or family into a car whose manufacturer had refused to send to independent crash testing facilities? No, that's ludicrous, but that's just what Diebold and other's have done. They hold America's Democracy in their grubby little hands and then glare at us and lean closer to their desk whenever we try and look over their shoulder.
Anyone who ever honestly thought and said that voting machines ought to be a black box should be hanged, or at least deported.
I applaud California for both their Zero-Tolerance policy regarding voting machine manufacturer misconduct (this is one of the few places I'm 100% in favor of 'Zero Tolerance' policies) as well as further requiring (well, proposing to require) such intensive testing.
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