March 04, 2012
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Here's a fun e-voting story. Wash DC offcials double-dog-dared hackers to subvert their e-voting system. Gave them a 3 week window.
The team also managed to guess the login details for the terminal server used by the voting system. This wasn't exactly difficult, since the user name and password were both "admin"....
Finally, they inserted the word "owned" onto the final signoff screen of the voting page, and set up the University of Michigan football fight song to play after 15 seconds.
It took two days before the authorities discovered they'd been pwned, and they were only alerted to that fact when another tester told them the system was secure, but that they should lose the music on the sign-off screen, as it was rather annoying.
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Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 04, 2012 09:01 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 04, 2012 09:02 AM (d0Tfm)
That is the purpose of fences and locks. They keep honest people honest and slow down the others enough to to either make it not worthwhile or to allow human intervention.
Posted by: Vic at March 04, 2012 09:04 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: RushBabe, severely conservative at March 04, 2012 09:05 AM (tQHzJ)
Posted by: todler at March 04, 2012 09:06 AM (OluE0)
Posted by: Deuce at March 04, 2012 09:07 AM (E55AK)
Posted by: Not an Artist at March 04, 2012 09:07 AM (Lo/3Q)
Posted by: todler at March 04, 2012 09:08 AM (OluE0)
Posted by: Booboo at March 04, 2012 09:08 AM (niZvt)
Same Forest Service made The Appalachian Mountain Club make one of their mountain lodges, accessible only on foot, install a wheelchair ramp as part of their renovations.
Posted by: fluffy at March 04, 2012 09:08 AM (vRSeu)
"The rest of it stinks like crap."
As I suspected, but I wanted to hear from some Morons who knew.
Neither the bear or the deer down here are big enough to do much of anything with.
Oh, and my first gig as an Infidel went well yesterday, music-wise. The crowd was sparse, but they had the bikini contest right before we started our set. We all looked at each other as said, "I love my job."
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 04, 2012 09:08 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Cato at March 04, 2012 09:10 AM (btRMw)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 04, 2012 09:11 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 09:11 AM (I2LwF)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, rip andrew at March 04, 2012 09:12 AM (Ho2rs)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, rip andrew at March 04, 2012 09:13 AM (Ho2rs)
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The other major elephant on the couch they ignore is we elect President's by State, not popular vote. All they have to do is steal enough votes in States like OH and VA where the margin is in the low 1000s.
Posted by: Vic at March 04, 2012 09:13 AM (YdQQY)
Animals dependent= bad
People dependent= good.
/Confucious reminds us governments are evil.
Posted by: ghost of David Carradine at March 04, 2012 09:14 AM (z63Tr)
Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at March 04, 2012 09:15 AM (otfJ1)
Posted by: fluffy at March 04, 2012 01:08 PM (vRSeu)
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That is the irony of government regulation. Even if you built some kind of public accommodation at the top of a mountain accessible only by foot, you will still have to make it handicapped accessible in all that it entails.
Posted by: Vic at March 04, 2012 09:15 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 04, 2012 09:16 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Ima Wurdibitsch at March 04, 2012 01:15 PM (otfJ1)
Guilty.
of also wanting to know
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 09:16 AM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Flintsione at March 04, 2012 09:17 AM (dZmmV)
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 09:18 AM (I2LwF)
Posted by: eman at March 04, 2012 09:19 AM (qOpnH)
Posted by: joe 'super genius' biden at March 04, 2012 09:19 AM (6RnvM)
Posted by: yogi bear at March 04, 2012 09:20 AM (6RnvM)
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 09:20 AM (I2LwF)
Posted by: mike at March 04, 2012 09:21 AM (pbxle)
Posted by: Fritz at March 04, 2012 09:21 AM (FDEjy)
Posted by: Palerider at March 04, 2012 09:22 AM (FYUWS)
Posted by: phreshone at March 04, 2012 09:23 AM (KtT0H)
Ah, yes. I see it's still there. It's even more fun when you have google translate the page.
Posted by: Smell of Desire at March 04, 2012 09:23 AM (TrNbx)
Posted by: Palerider at March 04, 2012 09:23 AM (FYUWS)
Posted by: mike at March 04, 2012 09:24 AM (pbxle)
Posted by: Flintsione at March 04, 2012 09:25 AM (dZmmV)
The NYSE gets billions of trades done every day and reconciles every one of them down to the penny. But we can't figure out how to vote once every two years without screwing up the results?
I ask: Can't, or don't want to?
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 09:25 AM (I2LwF)
"Hey, you know that blue web-divas button on the sidebar? Click on it. Seriously."
Wow! I'm assuming teh Ewok King doesn't know about this yet?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 04, 2012 09:25 AM (d0Tfm)
This is where our tax money is going, and it's time we stopped accepting things like this and started fighting back. We, the working stiffs that keep this country running, are going to be eaten out of house and home if we don't find a way to stop the welfare state gravy train.
The future of this Republic depends on all of our efforts to put an end to this kind of naked graft and find workable solutions that get people off their asses and back to work.
Posted by: Cato at March 04, 2012 09:26 AM (r8qbV)
Posted by: yogi bear at March 04, 2012 09:26 AM (6RnvM)
Wow! I'm assuming teh Ewok King doesn't know about this yet?
For the last couple of months, I've tried to tell anyone whose email I had. Nobody's listening. Or maybe they know and they don't want to hear.
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 09:26 AM (I2LwF)
It's been mentioned a few times over the last year or two.
Posted by: Francis at March 04, 2012 09:27 AM (xXGK4)
You gotta be kiddin' me? They never bothered to change the default login account and were compromised by the most simple brute force attack? Fail. Epic fail. You're fired! fail.
Oh, wait. This was a government managed system? Then promote the admins!
Yeah, Chinese and Russian crackers have nothing to worry about.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 04, 2012 09:28 AM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: mike at March 04, 2012 01:24 PM (pbxle)
The Singapore zoo has no fences, cages or glass separating the critters from the humans. All natural barriers. As far as I know, they've never had an incident.
Posted by: Tami at March 04, 2012 09:29 AM (X6akg)
He looks a little tense. I think he's waiting for a pack of free condoms.
Posted by: Heorot at March 04, 2012 09:29 AM (xXGK4)
"For the last couple of months, I've tried to tell anyone whose email I had. Nobody's listening. Or maybe they know and they don't want to hear."
Further proof that I'm a Moron: I always thought that was a web design company.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 04, 2012 09:29 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: eman at March 04, 2012 09:31 AM (qOpnH)
Hey, speaking of voting, I get to vote on Super Tuesday. I'm considering same-day registering Democrat and writing in Ron Paul.
What think?
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 09:32 AM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Smell of Desire at March 04, 2012 09:32 AM (TrNbx)
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 04, 2012 01:28 PM (eHIJJ)
It was part of an obligatory "affirmative action for retarded hackers" program. SCOTUS held 5-4, citing the disparate impact of security procedures on the stupid. Social justice!
Posted by: really ... at March 04, 2012 09:33 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 04, 2012 09:34 AM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 09:34 AM (I2LwF)
I know what you mean... freaky.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIZ04AGTjHc
Posted by: lornzack of mars at March 04, 2012 09:34 AM (6RnvM)
Posted by: mike at March 04, 2012 09:35 AM (pbxle)
Posted by: Watcher at March 04, 2012 09:36 AM (NABxn)
"E\veryone's seen the "Breitbart is Here" link in the sidebar, right?"
Yup, got one up over at my place already. Still need to change my gravitar pic to that image too.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 04, 2012 09:37 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: joe 'super genius' biden at March 04, 2012 09:37 AM (6RnvM)
Someone in Khartoum must be feeling very, very lonely. And the coastal Californians have got the yellow fever in a bad way
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 04, 2012 09:39 AM (QTHTd)
Posted by: jeanne! with two N's and an E at March 04, 2012 09:39 AM (3MVsc)
That's okay. I get all the estrogen I need eating Georgetown sluts. Right, Booboo?
Posted by: yogi bear at March 04, 2012 09:39 AM (6RnvM)
I'm not seeing it. Is it because I have adblock running?
Posted by: Tami at March 04, 2012 09:43 AM (X6akg)
I ask: Can't, or don't want to?
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 01:25 PM (I2LwF)
You don't even have to go that far. These same states run their lotteries, which dispense millions of tickets on a daily basis and give away billions of dollars. I have never heard of anyone hacking the state Lotto computer or a ticket being forged or a legitimate claim of a ticket not being recorded ... they know exactly how many winning tickets were purchased the second the number is drawn, and from which stores. These same states claim they can't run a secure voting system that differs little from their numbers racket except that it is actually one of the few responsibilities the government actually has (unlike running numbers, which they do with no problem).
Posted by: really ... at March 04, 2012 09:44 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: Random guest-starring on 'Hee-Haw' at March 04, 2012 09:45 AM (MMC8r)
- yep, here's the wayback: http://tinyurl.com/7drdqtf. "Design solutions for your website".
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 04, 2012 09:47 AM (QTHTd)
Not true, Vic. But it requires the use of cryptography, and is an administrative nightmare.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 04, 2012 09:47 AM (Why44)
So did I, until today. I wonder what other surprises are hidden around here.
Posted by: Retread at March 04, 2012 09:47 AM (joSBv)
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 09:47 AM (I2LwF)
Posted by: Will Folks at March 04, 2012 09:47 AM (DGIjM)
Could be ad-block. I can see it with ad-block on linux but it might depend on which list you have ad-block subscribed to. It would be in the right hand column right under where it says "Powered by Movable Type"
Posted by: Heorot at March 04, 2012 09:51 AM (xXGK4)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 04, 2012 09:52 AM (Why44)
Posted by: Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such nature films as Earwigs: Eww! and Man vs. Nature at March 04, 2012 09:53 AM (GTbGH)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 04, 2012 09:54 AM (Why44)
Posted by: eman at March 04, 2012 09:54 AM (qOpnH)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 04, 2012 09:55 AM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Lincolntf at March 04, 2012 09:55 AM (hiMsy)
"Japanese girls love sexual intercourse. And the Japanese girls have world's best sexual intercourse technique. The sexual intercourse of girls is the best in the world. A country of the Far East, the Japanese raven-black hair are wonderful, too."
HAHAHA
The button is on this page, not the main page.
Posted by: lesbian seagull at March 04, 2012 09:58 AM (xXhWA)
Ok, I'm over it.
Posted by: Tami at March 04, 2012 09:59 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: lesbian seagull at March 04, 2012 10:00 AM (xXhWA)
Posted by: eman at March 04, 2012 01:54 PM (qOpnH)
Only on their face. Secure and accurate real-time tabulation of preferences is what they both are - well ... only the numbers racket is real-time. The voting system has the wall of 80 year old ladies defending initial entry.
Voting and the numbers racket software are not all that different in what they actually do.
Posted by: really ... at March 04, 2012 10:01 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: eman at March 04, 2012 10:02 AM (qOpnH)
Posted by: lesbian seagull at March 04, 2012 10:03 AM (xXhWA)
Go on.
Posted by: Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such nature films as Earwigs: Eww! and Man vs. Nature at March 04, 2012 10:04 AM (GTbGH)
Posted by: eman at March 04, 2012 10:05 AM (qOpnH)
Posted by: Peaches at March 04, 2012 10:07 AM (BETpH)
Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 04, 2012 10:07 AM (DGIjM)
Since he's reading here, what exactly is it he was paying for his ex-lover to hide; and where'd he get the money from?
And where did he find that fabulous centurion's bust?
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 04, 2012 10:13 AM (QTHTd)
Posted by: lowandslow at March 04, 2012 10:14 AM (GZitp)
http://tinyurl.com/8yhzv3k
Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 04, 2012 02:07 PM (DGIjM)
They picked a great line. I'm still laughing.
Posted by: really ... at March 04, 2012 10:15 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: logprof at March 04, 2012 10:16 AM (ykSKg)
Posted by: RushBabe, severely conservative at March 04, 2012 01:05 PM (tQHzJ)
It's worse than that example implies because Electoral College votes, not popular vote, determine the outcome. Voter fraud in a relatively few swing states can shift an election. One hundred thousand fraudulent votes, strategically distributed, could change an election's result.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 04, 2012 10:17 AM (oTDJ0)
Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 04, 2012 02:07 PM (DGIjM)
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Posted by: Peaches at March 04, 2012 10:18 AM (BETpH)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 04, 2012 10:19 AM (/D8ux)
Posted by: Vic at March 04, 2012 10:19 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: really ... at March 04, 2012 02:15 PM (X3lox)
Ace was absolutely hysterical on twitter yesterday. A book should be made of those tweets.
Posted by: Tami at March 04, 2012 10:22 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: eman at March 04, 2012 10:23 AM (qOpnH)
Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 04, 2012 10:25 AM (DGIjM)
Also, I think it was Newt Gingrich who used to point out that credit card companies and banks do zillions of transactions a day very safely, yet we don't have a good way to verify Social Security numbers and things for employment and immigration purposes.
I *think* it was around the time his Big Idea was making the healthcare system more efficient with electronic records, computerized prescriptions (as opposed to a doctor's scribbles) and things like that.
Maybe someone with a better memory can elaborate or correct me. Newt's had so many ideas that it's hard to keep track. He'd really be a better pundit or columnist or something that candidate or elected official. (Yes, I know he was a Fox News contributor for a while. He didn't have his own show, though.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 04, 2012 10:26 AM (/D8ux)
Posted by: Make Believe Media at March 04, 2012 10:26 AM (A5SiJ)
Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 04, 2012 10:27 AM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Peaches at March 04, 2012 10:29 AM (BETpH)
Posted by: Peaches at March 04, 2012 02:29 PM (BETpH)
When he stopped late last night, I pictured him passed out with some genoa salami hanging out of his mouth.
Posted by: Tami at March 04, 2012 10:31 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: garrett at March 04, 2012 10:31 AM (d+n9Q)
True. even if he win's it he's ineligible for a third of the delegates. His campaign blunders ounce again.
Posted by: lowandslow at March 04, 2012 10:33 AM (GZitp)
Posted by: Ronster at March 04, 2012 02:33 PM (T1nDt)
But you ALWAYS get help. Every time.
They usually get you high while you are waiting for the parts, too.
Posted by: garrett at March 04, 2012 10:34 AM (d+n9Q)
Santorum and Gingrich (and Perry, and...) really dropped the ball by not being on every ballot.
Well, "dropped the ball" is a little harsh. It takes money and staffing, which really only Romney has actually had. The experience of having run before (which Romney and Paul share) helps a lot too.
So, yeah, I'm pretty resigned to the idea of Nominey. I figure that if he can win the primary without my supptort, well, then.
Such a shame. If we'd had a halfway decent field, the general election would almost be in the bag by now. As it is, I don't know that any of them are especially electable in and of themselves. Contrasted to Obama, okay, we have a shot. But it's always better to have a positive, affirmative reason to vote *for* instead of *against.*
Posted by: Lance McCormick at March 04, 2012 10:34 AM (/D8ux)
Posted by: Truman North at March 04, 2012 01:24 PM (I2LwF)
Yet another score by the corruptocrats -- small chance of penalty. First of all, you better hope there's an "R" AG in the state who will even press charges. Then you'll need a judge who wasn't appointed by a "D" to even give them significant jail time.
In Va., the current General Assembly actually added a few new penalties for voter fraud, but they didn't want them to take effect until 2013. Epic minds at work.
Posted by: American Electorate 2008 at March 04, 2012 10:40 AM (tQHzJ)
Posted by: Mayor of East Whoreville at March 04, 2012 10:40 AM (eHIJJ)
Posted by: garrett at March 04, 2012 02:34 PM (d+n9Q)
I always thought it was engine fumes escaping the cracks in the doors. Now, I know better.
Posted by: Ronster at March 04, 2012 10:41 AM (T1nDt)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 04, 2012 10:41 AM (Why44)
Posted by: LC LaWedgie at March 04, 2012 10:45 AM (1ZF7c)
A distinction with a difference, but not a whole hell of a lot of one. Kinda proves the point others have made. Why the hell do we have (and pay for) both ?
Posted by: JBintheOB at March 04, 2012 11:24 AM (Q1ey0)
Why do we have to apologize for highlighting the liberals' only hope for maintaining relevance?
Posted by: EIEIEO at March 04, 2012 11:41 AM (hcFgY)
Posted by: steevy at March 04, 2012 01:40 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: dissent555 at March 04, 2012 03:17 PM (yR6A1)
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Cheers!
Posted by: Big City Cops at March 04, 2012 03:32 PM (TcgZT)
Posted by: CMU VET at March 04, 2012 04:15 PM (Txumn)
Fail! Fail! We Missed-Again!
Fail! To the second-rate finishers!
Fail! The return diminishers!
Fail! Fail! To Michigan!
We always flunk the test!
Fail! But remember our cheer:
Fail! But just WAIT 'TIL NEXT YEAR!
Fail! Fail! We Missed-Again!
Forever second best!
Help! Help! For Michigan!
Help! For the big game losers!
Help! For the choke excusers!
Help! Help! For Michigan,
Aid is needed here!
Help! For the behind-laggers!
Help! The MNC gaggers!
Help! Help! For Michigan,
But WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR!
Hurl! Hurl! To Sing Again!
Hurl! To this wretched fight song!
Hurl! While the hounds bark along!
Hurl! Hurl! This fight song sucks!
Vomit and spew!
Hurl! At this putrid show tune!
Hurl! May the song please end soon!
Hurl! Hurl! Our fight song sucks!
We barf in Maize and Blue!
Tie! Tie! With Sissy-men!
Tie! With the non-deciders!
Tie! With the draw abiders!
Tie! Tie! With Sissy-men!
Chokers and goats!
Tie! With the even-Stephens!
Tie! With the no-win heathens!
Tie! Tie! With Sissy-men!
Grasping at their throats!
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at March 05, 2012 04:41 AM (1hM1d)
The previous best example of dueling competencies was when the government agency responsible for management of the water on the Missouri river mismanaged the level of water in its several massive upstream impoundments that it was forced to release record amounts to protect those dams. This resulted in such flooding that high water endangered two nuclear power plants, which were sited on the river under the regulatory guidance of another competent government agency who was so competent that those plants would never have to worry about being flooded.
And yet some people want to place our health care totally in the hands of a brand new competent government agency.
Posted by: theBuckWheat at March 05, 2012 06:07 AM (kSPiI)
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