Re: Wired: "Paper is the New Silicon"

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The MAD deterant had a technical problem that, I hope, can be
ignored by election technology: it needed to survive and function
during a nuclear attack that would kill most living things, and
fry ordinary, "non-hardened" electronics. 

Also, paper tape is hardly 'voter verifiable'. 

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:50:06PM -0600, Joe Pezzillo wrote:
> 
> http://wired.com/news/columns/0,71092-0.html
> 
> "All the way through the 1980s, the missile targets were programmed  
> using paper punch tape. When I was writing my college thesis on a  
> Macintosh SE, and around the time that Intel released the 80386  
> processor, the United States was programming one-megaton nuclear  
> weapons with paper tape. As our guide, retired Army man Jim McMillan  
> explained to our tour group, paper can't be erased, demagnetized or  
> easily tampered with."

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Paul E Condon           
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