Comments on: Calfornia eVoting Machines Hacked http://donklephant.com/2007/08/01/calfornia-evoting-machines-hacked/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:35:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeremy http://donklephant.com/2007/08/01/calfornia-evoting-machines-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-380044 Jeremy Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:35:14 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/08/01/calfornia-evoting-machines-hacked/#comment-380044 "So the news isn’t THAT bad, but are we ever going to not have a reality where these machines can’t be hacked? You know people are just going to find more sophisticated ways to do it, so this will eventually become a greater threat." I tend to agree with you on this Justin. It's not the technology that is benevolent, it's the people's intentions that are. Technology is inherently insecure, after all, it is created by human beings. If something is deemed valuable enough people will put the resources and time toward subverting it. No technology is full proof. Although technology can be made difficult and time consuming to crack but again, given enough time and reason people WILL find a ways to subvert technology. It's not the machines fault, it's the nefarious will of factions who wish to win office in the most powerful seat in the country and the most powerful seat in the world. No system is 100% full-proof, not even the tabulating machines of the past. The real questions is: Will America demand that its elections not be stolen through fraudulent means. We might need a constitutional amendment to insure ALL the votes are counted and guarded, just as our revered Constitution is guarded so too should the peoples' votes (will) be guarded with as much zeal. “So the news isn’t THAT bad, but are we ever going to not have a reality where these machines can’t be hacked? You know people are just going to find more sophisticated ways to do it, so this will eventually become a greater threat.”

I tend to agree with you on this Justin. It’s not the technology that is benevolent, it’s the people’s intentions that are. Technology is inherently insecure, after all, it is created by human beings. If something is deemed valuable enough people will put the resources and time toward subverting it. No technology is full proof. Although technology can be made difficult and time consuming to crack but again, given enough time and reason people WILL find a ways to subvert technology.

It’s not the machines fault, it’s the nefarious will of factions who wish to win office in the most powerful seat in the country and the most powerful seat in the world.

No system is 100% full-proof, not even the tabulating machines of the past. The real questions is: Will America demand that its elections not be stolen through fraudulent means. We might need a constitutional amendment to insure ALL the votes are counted and guarded, just as our revered Constitution is guarded so too should the peoples’ votes (will) be guarded with as much zeal.

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