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In reply to the discussion: Anonymous Claims It Stopped Karl Rove From Hacking The Election By Hacking ORCA [View all]Johnny2X2X
(19,548 posts)80. BS
If this article was true, they would have copied and released the source code from ORCA to prove exactly what they are saying.
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Anonymous Claims It Stopped Karl Rove From Hacking The Election By Hacking ORCA [View all]
ehrnst
Nov 2012
OP
Partial review of "Boss Rove" extremely important book, excellent expose into the criminal
crunch60
Nov 2012
#269
Read the book: Witness to A Crime: A Citizens Audit of an American Election.
raincity_calling
Nov 2012
#268
BRAVO, BRAVO, thank you , thank you ANONYMOUS! Justice prevailed..I don't care what anyone else
crunch60
Nov 2012
#263
Architecturally, it was a fucking unmitigated DISASTER for a line of business app.
AtheistCrusader
Nov 2012
#207
To answer your question, there's a big difference between rigging a machine and breaking it.
Marr
Nov 2012
#4
On election night, it turned out Rove was the hack, hack politician who lost on every hack horse
Coyotl
Nov 2012
#251
Thank you very much for this wisdom. This belongs right afer the OP, not after the Ochestra of the
Coyotl
Nov 2012
#249
Can someone explain to me how something that was purported to be a reporting system
Chiyo-chichi
Nov 2012
#7
Actually, the people who developed ORCA have publicly discussed what happened to their system.
jeff47
Nov 2012
#175
"Had you heard about Obama's get-out-the-vote program before election day? Pretty much no one had."
stlsaxman
Nov 2012
#283
Nope. I'm talking about the system they created to support what he was talking about
jeff47
Nov 2012
#324
Rove was upset because he took hundreds of millions of dollars from billionaires
fujiyama
Nov 2012
#332
Jeff that is why hacking is so successful... It doesn't leave any evidence behind... This is why
midnight
Nov 2012
#213
They put a proxy server in that intercepts data coming from polling places and
LiberalArkie
Nov 2012
#16
Jeff47 you are naiive! Example: There were voting totals being sent wirelessly to
AikidoSoul
Nov 2012
#46
Even if they were on a separate network, it would be quite easy to bridge it
RoccoR5955
Nov 2012
#216
Knowing the track record for the GOP's lies and penchant for malicious mischief against political
calimary
Nov 2012
#74
If we had an AG who wasn't a complete patsy, that's where the info should go
BlueStreak
Nov 2012
#204
The precinct polling places know their numbers and will notice if that changes.
Coyotl
Nov 2012
#253
IOW, how do you do your absolutely vital GOTV - AND - not know actual counts as close as possible.
patrice
Nov 2012
#42
This doesn't see, highly credible. Vote tampering operations are generally state specific
Exultant Democracy
Nov 2012
#13
Hey, the Georgia GOP claims we are under mind-control. Maybe this is what they meant. nt
silvershadow
Nov 2012
#71
It is still a little early for indictments. Besides the DoJ did nothing about 2000 and 2004. What
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#117
Sorry you lost me there. Intimating that I am looking to hate the admin ends this "discussion". nm
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#151
I'm HAPPY. they Lost, we Won, that's the most important. I'm going with Anonymous.
crunch60
Nov 2012
#270
I choose to believe it. Yes I understand that it's partially because I "want to believe".
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#310
State/County IT Infrastructure is not anything like the Pentagon's or Langley
Evasporque
Nov 2012
#361
I don't know what happened, and I don't understand the technical aspects, but ...
Arugula Latte
Nov 2012
#29
My thoughts exactly. To anyone with IT knowledge, this sounds like a bunch of made up bullshit.
phleshdef
Nov 2012
#241
The claim by Anonymous does however seem to jive with the reactions of Rove
NorthCarolina
Nov 2012
#308
Any claim made after the fact is easy to make it "seem to jive" with whatever the fuck you want
RomneyLies
Nov 2012
#311
You should at least qualify your claim of "Completely tinfoilhat bullshit" with IMO
NorthCarolina
Nov 2012
#328
They could also use someone that understands networks so they don't sound so dumb. (nt)
jeff47
Nov 2012
#40
Plus somebody who understands what a web app is vs. what tabulators and voting machines are
RomneyLies
Nov 2012
#338
Do you have data to back up your implication that Anonymous is prone to announcing fake attacks?
FreeBC
Nov 2012
#133
So 'killing' a website that has nothing to do with voting machines somehow stops voting fraud.
randome
Nov 2012
#156
The name on this letter is not "Anonymous," so it might not even be from Anonymous, but
tblue37
Nov 2012
#150
ORCA wouldn't give you "propaganda" any more than making numbers up would...
brooklynite
Nov 2012
#106
How anyone can buy into this load of dog shit is beyond me. It's so stupid it's staggering.
cali
Nov 2012
#53
Keep up the good work Wonkette. For anyone who knows statistics it's obvious Ohio was stolen in 2004
diane in sf
Nov 2012
#107
welcome to DU, wonkette--and this is my current fave heartwarming election story
librechik
Nov 2012
#145
Wait...do you really believe that a status quo that FORCES us to use electronic voting
Zorra
Nov 2012
#121
It may or may not be true. What is amazing are the people here so determined to deny
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#77
I envy your pride in knowing that you can unequivocally determine what is and isnt bullshit.
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#115
If you're so quick to dismiss this, then you didn't really learn much from Ohio in 2004.
EOTE
Nov 2012
#118
It has nothing to do with semantics. But if you want to believe, who am I to
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#244
yeah, this is a hoax IMO until and unless more evidence comes in to confirm it
InsultComicDog
Nov 2012
#113
I repeat (much good it will do me), NO ELECTED OFFICIAL OR CANDIDATE complained...
brooklynite
Nov 2012
#108
Let me get your logic. No official complained therefore there was nothing wrong.
rhett o rick
Nov 2012
#318
ORCA killer, The Great Oz... let's just keep pretending they are the same thing
FreeBC
Nov 2012
#147
The fact that this latest 'announcement' can't be easily understood points to it being bullshit.
randome
Nov 2012
#160
Here is the original source Wonkette got her info from (Much, much more at link within):
Melinda
Nov 2012
#180
We won the election by voting. Not by some super-heroic cyber agency 'rescuing' us.
randome
Nov 2012
#191
Exactly right. Facts are that Obamas GOTV system was well tested and highly effective. Fact.
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2012
#197
This just proves that the Birther mentality in Republicans also exists in Democrats
RomneyLies
Nov 2012
#341
Thank you for reminding me of the pre-election warning. OK, very interesting evidence pro Anonymous
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2012
#280
Check this out -- Beached Killer Whale, ORCA, Not 'Obama's Gifts' Beat Romney - Forbes
Up2Late
Nov 2012
#243
There Is No Claim Of Adding Votes, Just Keeping Rove From "Massaging" The Numbers
colsohlibgal
Nov 2012
#245
I think the guy that wrote the Forbes commentary called ORCA Romney's Fail Whale
Up2Late
Nov 2012
#276
Personally I LOVE thinking that that Obama's GOTV and the american public halted the evildoers. nt
Bodhi BloodWave
Nov 2012
#296
Americans did the right thing this year and in 2004. However, in 2004, the GOP cheated.
valerief
Nov 2012
#321
This is bothersome. That we're even talking about the possibility of an unsound election is lousy.
Gregorian
Nov 2012
#313