Noise ratio
Since micro-blogging service twitter.com is nowadays one of the top ten websites and simply useful for quickly spreading ideas and comments, I hereby confess: Yes, I also twitter in 140-character limits and devote some time to reading tweets. I scan the interesting stuff once in the morning, once in the evening. And I turn it off when I'm doing serious work, really. :} Like in this blog, I also tweet irregularly on identi.ca and on evoting issues. But in a way, I'm an anti-social twitterer because my private twitter is limited to persons I actually see as close friends.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Successfully Manipulated Again
This is only the latest example. What we learn again in the news (also here or in German) today is: Sabotage of code in voting computers is actually much easier when the code is proprietary and secret. What should trouble you is that the electronic voting systems are, according to these and other computer experts and hackers, laughably hackable. Most scientist and computer security consultants agree that there are big risks when computers are used in elections. Anybody who still argues that such computers cannot be manipulated is a naive luddite. At the moment, there is no legitimacy of any election that uses software programmed machines. Just to remind you: Be a poll worker! In lots of places, election helpers are needed.
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