Re: IHT - A professor's pastime: hacking the voting system

[Lou Puls <lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems unusual in this county.  Where's the the army of our unusually 
talented geeks demanding that the Hart InterCivic system PROVE by their 
ex post facto "mock election" that, for example, the fake February patch 
was NOT installed to meekly await the poorly drafted and seven months 
late April M$ patch now causing (endless reboot) havoc all over the 
world (with who knows what back doors for future havoc)? If this widely 
Blog-discussed fact situation is paranoid fantasy, where are the geeks 
PROVING such?  As you said, you have to do it.

Paul Tiger wrote:

> [|>] not unusual at all. Before there were so-called professional classes in
> computer security, where do you think people learned how? I've worked
> professionally as a security geek. You can't improve things by postulating
> what will happen when hackers hack, you have to do it.
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> It might seem unusual to teach computer security through hacking, but a
> lot of what Aviel Rubin does is unusual.
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> http://www.iht.com/articles/518327.html
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