RE: More reasons to avoid electronic voting!

["Delta" <delta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The concern over the first story is ridiculous.
go read about X-10.
Info tx along power lines is old technology. Been around for decades.
It will not open up computers to hacking anymore than they are exposed to it
on Broadband or DSL.
and, those machines under consideration around *here* have no internet
access capability anyway, regardless of how you intend to transmit it.

The second story is nothing new either.....
silicon Valley Geeks have been making back doors and spyware ever since
software was invented.
how are *they* stopped from putting trapdoors into software meant for
electronic voting???

Mountains out of molehills......

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [mailto:evan@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:22 PM
> To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: More reasons to avoid electronic voting!
>
>
>
> Folks,
>
> Here are 2 more reasons electronic machines (except "dumb" ones like
> in the Swiss system) shouldn't be counting votes:
>
> Hi-speed internet via power lines means ANY computer could be
> connected to the outside world (and thus subject to outside control or
> hacking) even if no phone line, modem, wireless or network connection
> is evident:
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/10/tech/main540094.shtml
>
> AND, computers could come brand-new (to Hart, for example) with
> spyware or "backdoors" built in:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4849742.stm
>
> Evan
>
> "If you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer."
> -Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"
>
> "Nobody understands everything in commercial US electronic voting
> systems." -me
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>