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Titolo: vi consiglio di vedere il documentario "Hacking Democracy"

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/
Electronic voting machines count about 87% of the votes cast in
America today. But are they reliable? Are they safe from tampering?
From a current congressional hearing to persistent media reports that
suggest misuse of data and even outright fraud, concerns over the
integrity of electronic voting are growing by the day. And if the
voting process is not secure, neither is America's democracy. The
timely, cautionary documentary HACKING DEMOCRACY exposes gaping holes
in the security of America's electronic voting system.
In the 2000 presidential election, an electronic voting machine
recorded minus 16,022 votes for Al Gore in Volusia County, Fla. While
fraud was never proven, the faulty tally alerted computer scientists,
politicians and everyday citizens to the very real possibility of
computer hacking during elections.
In 2002, Seattle grandmother and writer Bev Harris asked officials in
her county why they had acquired electronic touch screen systems for
their elections. Unsatisfied with their explanation, she set out to
learn about electronic voting machines on her own. In the course of
her research, which unearthed hundreds of reported incidents of
mishandled voting information, Harris stumbled across an "online
library" of the Diebold Corporation, discovering a treasure trove of
information about the inner-workings of the company's voting system.
Harris brought this proprietary "secret" information to computer
security expert Dr. Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, who
determined that the software lacked the necessary security features to
prevent tampering. Her subsequent investigation took her from the
trash cans of Texas to the secretary of state of California and
finally to Florida, where a "mini-election" to test the vulnerability
of the memory cards used in electronic voting produced alarming
results.
As the scope of her mission grew, Harris drew on the expertise of
other computer- science experts, politicians and activists, among
them: Andy Stephenson, candidate for secretary of state in Washington
state; Susan Bernecker, Republican candidate in New Orleans; Kathleen
Wynne, an activist from Cleveland; Dr. Herbert Thompson, chief
security strategist, Security Innovation, Inc.; Ion Sancho, supervisor
of elections for Leon County, Fla.; and Harri Hursti, a computer-
security analyst. Academics, public officials and others seen in
interview footage include: Deanie Lowe, supervisor of elections,
Volusia County, Fla.; Mark Radke, marketing director of Diebold; David
Cobb, presidential candidate, Green Party; and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-
Jones of Ohio.
Diebold software, or other software like it, is installed in thousands
of counties across 32 states. David Dill, professor of computer
science at Stanford, says the problem is that there are "lots of
people involved in writing the software, and lots of people who could
have touched the software before it went into that machine. If one of
those people put something malicious in the software and it's
distributed to all the machines, then that one person could be
responsible for changing tens of thousands of votes, maybe even
hundreds of thousands, across the country."
In Florida, Leon County supervisor of elections Ion Sancho presided
over a trial "mini-election" to see if the vote could be hacked
without being detected. Before votes were actually cast, computer
analyst Harri Hursti "stuffed the ballot box" by entering votes on the
computer's memory card. Then, after votes were cast, the results
displayed when the same memory card was entered in the central
tabulating program indicated that fraud was indeed possible. In other
words, by accessing a memory card before an election, someone could
change the results - a claim Diebold had denied was possible.
Ultimately, Bev Harris' research proved that the top-secret
computerized systems counting the votes in America's public elections
are not only fallible, but also vulnerable to undetectable hacking,
from local school board contests to the presidential race. With the
electronic voting machines of three companies - Diebold, ES&S and
Sequoia - collectively responsible for around 80 percent of America's
votes today, the stakes for democracy are high.
One of the executive producers of HACKING DEMOCRACY is Sarah Teale,
whose previous HBO credits include "Dealing Dogs" and "Bellevue:
Inside Out."
HACKING DEMOCRACY was directed by Simon Ardizzone and Russell
Michaels; produced by Simon Ardizzone, Robert Carrillo Cohen and
Russell Michaels; executive producers, Earl Katz, Sarah Teale and Sian
Edwards; edited by Sasha Zik. For HBO: supervising producer, John
Hoffman; executive producer, Sheila Nevins.

in the security of America's electronic voting system.
Sono proprio dei coglioni. A cosa servono le urne elettroniche?
Bastava che andassero in uno qualsiasi dei paesi di socialismo reale
(tipo la Cambogia) per vedere quali erano i metodi che garantivano al
partito comunista di ottenere il 99.99% dei voti.

 partito comunista di ottenere il 99.99% dei voti.
al contrario, non sono affatto coglioni: negli USA sono capitalisti, i
soldi li investono, non li sprecano. Se per vincere basta il 50%+1 dei
voti non ha senso rubarli tutti....