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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (73851)	8/1/2006 8:51:51 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 173976

Group identifies new flaws in Diebold evoting machines RAW STORY Published: Monday July 31, 2006 Print This \| Email This GROUP: 'Vote counts can be changed with the flip of a a switch' The Open Voting Foundation, a California-based nonprofit organization that works to promote the adoption of "open source" technology to the nation's voting machines, has announced it has found what it calls the "worst ever security flow found in Diebold RS voting machines." The Foundation claims to have discovered a switch inside of the machine which, when flipped, can have the machine operate in "a completely different manner compared to the tested and certified version." "Diebold has made the testing and certification process practically irrelevant," said the Foundation's President Alan Descert, in a statement obtained by RAW STORY. "If you have access to these machines and you want to rig an election, anything is possible with the Diebold TS -- and it could be done without leaving a trace. All you need is a screwdriver," he continued. Technical specifications of the report may be read in the statement, an excerpt from which follows: # Open Voting Foundation is releasing 22 high-resolution close up pictures of the system. This picture, in particular, shows a â€œBOOT AREA CONFIGURATIONâ€ chart painted on the system board. The most serious issue is the ability to choose between "EPROM" and "FLASH" boot configurations. Both of these memory sources are present. All of the switches in question (JP2, JP3, JP8, SW2 and SW4) are physically present on the board. It is clear that this system can ship with live boot profiles in two locations, and switching back and forth could change literally everything regarding how the machine works and counts votes. This could be done before or after the so-called "Logic And Accuracy Tests". A third possible profile could be field-added in minutes and selected in the "external flash" memory location, the interface for which is present on the motherboard. This is not a minor variation from the previously documented attack point on the newer Diebold TSx. To its credit, the TSx can only contain one boot profile at a time. Diebold has ensured that it is extremely difficult to confirm what code is in a TSx (or TS) at any one time but it is at least theoretically possible to do so. But in the TS, a completely legal and certified set of files can be instantly overridden and illegal uncertified code be made dominant in the system, and then this situation can be reversed leaving the legal code dominant again in a matter of minutes. â€œThese findings underscore the need for open testing and certification. There is no way such a security vulnerability should be allowed. These systems should be recalledâ€ rawstory.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (73851)	8/1/2006 8:53:39 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

>>>There is no war on poverty - Only a war on the poor.<<< America has become a nation of Republican reservations, from which all poor folk must detour.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (73851)	8/1/2006 9:56:48 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 173976

Kenneth, you are nuts. There is no war on poverty - Only a war on the poor.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (73851)	8/1/2006 10:04:11 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

why would there be a war on the poor??? unless you are a democrat trying to buy their votes with false promises

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (73851)	8/1/2006 10:12:30 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

Guilt trip "White guilt affects everything having to do with race in America. ... White guilt has given us a euphemistic language with which to discuss race. ... "That said, white guilt undermines black progress and race relations because it generates disingenuous racial policies -- diversity, affirmative action, and welfare without expectations (until the late '90s). These policies enable whites to fend off the racist stigma they live with but rob blacks of the incentive to work harder for their own advancement. All these 'white guilt' policies ask nothing whatsoever of blacks. They are an incentive to weakness rather than strength. Black high school students did worse on the SAT in 2000 than in 1990. These students know that low performance is no bar to the racial preferences of affirmative action. So why work harder? Yet American institutions almost fanatically support 'white guilt' policies because the legitimacy of these institutions now depends on their proving themselves free of racism. White guilt means that America's racial reforms serve the innocent whites while facilitating weakness in minorities." --Shelby Steele, author of "White Guilt," interviewed Thursday in Front Page at www.frontpagemag.com Guilt trip "White guilt affects everything having to do with race in America. ... White guilt has given us a euphemistic language with which to discuss race. ... "That said, white guilt undermines black progress and race relations because it generates disingenuous racial policies -- diversity, affirmative action, and welfare without expectations (until the late '90s). These policies enable whites to fend off the racist stigma they live with but rob blacks of the incentive to work harder for their own advancement. All these 'white guilt' policies ask nothing whatsoever of blacks. They are an incentive to weakness rather than strength. Black high school students did worse on the SAT in 2000 than in 1990. These students know that low performance is no bar to the racial preferences of affirmative action. So why work harder? Yet American institutions almost fanatically support 'white guilt' policies because the legitimacy of these institutions now depends on their proving themselves free of racism. White guilt means that America's racial reforms serve the innocent whites while facilitating weakness in minorities." --Shelby Steele, author of "White Guilt," interviewed Thursday in Front Page at www.frontpagemag.com