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Kelvin Mace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 02:11 PM
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None of the foregoing bothers Utah election officials. Polling-place security will keep hackers at bay, they say, and if Diebold machines turn out to be duds, the state has a 10-year guarantee for replacement.


These people should be allowed out in public without a keeper. The danger from hackers is not from the general public, but from crooked election officials. The term "hacker" is a misnomer for a number of reasons (properly , they mean "cracker"), but mostly because it implies possession of sophisticated computer skills. In reality I probably could teach your average eight year-old how to "hack" these systems.
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