VOTE SCAMMIN' SOB GETTING EXPOSED TO PUNK RAGE:
Students are making a difference!
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Diebold (e-voting company) must now deal with the students they tried to silence and a Congressional investigation.
Diebold is still trying to pull their CEO’s foot out of his mouth for stating that he would secure a re-election victory for Dubya -while his company had the multi-million dollar contract to run our nation’s newest “secure” voting technology.
Diebold has been trying to silence college kids for spreading their internal documents that expose the problems of the new voting technology. Diebold finally gave up the battle of going after students – but are now being sued by the same Swarthmore College kids to make sure other companies don’t try to use Internet copy write laws to silence free-speech.
Znet
news.zdnet.co.uk
reports that Diebold is now going to have to face congressional inquiries and legal challenges for misusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to try and silence free speech about real problems in their new voting machines. Znet quotes Wendy Seltzer, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as saying, "It's a tremendous victory for free speech, for the Internet as a communications forum, and it's reaffirming the public side of the balance that copyright is supposed to embody," She also stated, "We've been saying from the beginning that Diebold shouldn't be able to use copyright law to stop discussion of technologies that are at the heart of our democracy, and Diebold has finally acknowledged that by dropping its threats of suit," Seltzer also said. "And we plan to drive that point home to Diebold and anyone else who might be tempted to misuse copyright similarly."
For more information:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
eff.org
writes, Communities across America are purchasing electronic voting (e-voting) machines, but the technology has serious security problems that aren't being addressed. Most of the machines use "black box" software that hasn't been publicly reviewed for security.
NY Times Paul Krugman
nytimes.com
wrote, “What we do know about Diebold does not inspire confidence. The details are technical, but they add up to a picture of a company that was, at the very least, extremely sloppy about security, and may have been trying to cover up product defects." He continued “An analysis of Diebold software by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Rice Universities found it both unreliable and subject to abuse. A later report commissioned by the state of Maryland apparently reached similar conclusions. (It's hard to be sure because the state released only a heavily redacted version.) Meanwhile, leaked internal Diebold e-mail suggests that corporate officials knew their system was flawed, and circumvented tests that would have revealed these problems. The company hasn't contested the authenticity of these documents; instead, it has engaged in legal actions to prevent their dissemination."
Fox News
foxnews.com
reported, "Diebold said it would not sue dozens of students, computer scientists and Internet service providers who had received cease-and-desist letters from the company from August to October." They also reported, "Diebold also promised not to sue two Swarthmore College students and a San Francisco-based service provider for copyright infringement, according to a motion filed by company attorneys Nov. 24 in San Jose federal court."
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