Diebold Shrugs It Off
The computer scientist:
Aviel Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, did the first in-depth analysis of the security flaws in the source code for Diebold touch-screen machines in 2003. After studying the latest problem, he said: “I almost had a heart attack. The implications of this are pretty astounding.”
The care-free election official:
We’re prepared for those types of problems,” said Deborah Hench, the registrar of voters in San Joaquin County, Calif.
The Diebold spokesman:
“For there to be a problem here, you’re basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software,” he said. “I don’t believe these evil elections people exist.”
Was Diebold’s spokesman David Bear born yesterday?
It all in the NY Times today.