Neal,
I am hardly a Ruby guru ... but I hae spent about a year studying it and am writing stuff that will, I hope, sell.
I don't have much time to spare ... election politics is consuming vast amounts of my time.
But ... here I am ... a Ruby journeyman programmer.
Footnote: Ruby is an interpreted language. If the interpreter has been hacked then all bets are off.
Ralph
Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 1:54:52 PM, you wrote:
NM> I'm not particularly proficient in the language they're using, Ruby,
NM> so I wouldn't be the best person. If you know some Ruby hackers
NM> looking for glory, this could be their chance - there are many Ruby
NM> gurus in CO I'm sure.
NM> The surest way to spoil the election would be a big distributed denial
NM> of service attack. But it isn't clear if that would indeed be
NM> permitted, and depending on their network it could easily take out
NM> lots of innocent bystanders, like the rest of DC's computer systems.
NM> -Neal
NM> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:27:48AM -0600, Lou Puls wrote:
>> Neal,
>> Thanks for the link to the announcement. What short notice -- amazing!
>> Is there any chance YOU are applying for test credentials -- there is no-one
>> more qualified from our region, I believe.
>> To me, this seems to be a rare opportunity for "White Hat" hacking-testing of
>> the system, since any liability is intentionally waived, and the open-source
>> environment precludes problems with unforeseen proprietary problems.
>> Lou Puls
>> Museion Research
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> The new trial overseas Internet voting system in D.C. is getting
>> underway (late), and is starting with a request for testing and review
>> of the source code from OSDV.
>>
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Best regards,
Ralph mailto:ralphs@xxxxxxxxx