http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61014,00.html
from which -
The files on the server also revealed that the Sequoia system relies heavily on Microsoft software components, a fact the company often has been coy about discussing since Microsoft software is a frequent target of hackers.
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Diebold uses Microsoft software. Diebold voting systems are awful. So awful that they'd rather sue whistle blowers than face public scrutiny.
Sequoia uses Microsoft software. Sequoia keeps quiet about it because eveyone and his peg-legged grandmother now knows that Win32 = wondrously squishy targets of opportunity for malicious code, script kiddies and steel-eyed console jockeys with ill intent.
Is the source, at least from a technical point of view, of the profound suck-i-tude of electronic voting in the US becoming clear?
DRM
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