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http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78#breaking
It appears that such an attack may already have taken place, in a primary election 6 weeks ago in King County, Washington -- a large jurisdiction with over one million registered voters. Documents, including internal audit logs for the central vote-counting computer, along with modem "trouble slips" consistent with hacker activity, show that the system may have been hacked on Sept. 14, 2004. Three hours is now missing from the vote-counting computer's "audit log," an automatically generated record, similar to the black box in an airplane, which registers certain kinds of events.
I looked at these files to see if I should call election officials during lunch. blackboxvoting's claim is that the resultspages.pdf includes reports printed during the gap in the audit logs, and they should have shown up. However, we never do see audit-log entries for these, even during the non-gap time. There's a report timestamped 9:43pm 9/14, for example, which isn't in this log. So Occam's razor suggests that this audit log just doesn't log those reporting operations.
The central servers are installed on unpatched, open Windows computers and use RAS (Remote Access Server) to connect to the voting machines through telephone lines.
Now, if they are seriously using Windows Remote Access to transmit vote counts to the tabulator, then they hate America. I don't know how to confirm that.

Date: 2004-11-02 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mh75.livejournal.com
If i think about any of these things for too long i might panic.

where's my towel?

Date: 2004-11-02 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] hattifattener
I think the book I gave you has some cites you could use to confirm it?

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