-Caveat Lector- Below, the story states that, "Free speech advocates sued a manufacturer of electronic voting machines Tuesday, demanding it stop sending legal threats to groups that publish company documents leaked by a hacker." As I understood it, this stuff was online available to any that would sort through enough pages to find it. Let's ask the people at Black Box Voting dot Com (Cc'ing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ).
The media, the supposedly LIBERAL media is spinning this story already, slanderously and erroneously and they are HIDING right wing connections to the lack of integrity of the new electronic voting machines, i.e. they are programmed by people of questionable connections and leaked memos indicate that companies like Diebold are attempting to hide the fact that these rightist sponsored programmable machines are severly flawed. Some LIBERAL media. Bev? ~ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news? tmpl=story&cid=536&e=5&u=/ap/20031105/ap_on_hi_te/electronic_voting_lawsuit Electronic Voting Firm Sued Over Threats Tue Nov 4, 8:13 PM ET By RACHEL KONRAD, Associated Press Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. - Free speech advocates sued a manufacturer of electronic voting machines Tuesday, demanding it stop sending legal threats to groups that publish company documents leaked by a hacker. Voting activists who have received the cease-and-desist orders, including students from at least 20 universities, claim the documents raise serious security concerns about Diebold Inc., which has more than 50,000 touchscreen voting terminals nationwide. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford University's Cyberlaw Clinic filed for a temporary restraining order in federal court. Diebold executives could not be reached for comment Tuesday. But spokesman Mike Jacobsen said in late October that the internal documents aren't necessarily authentic. A hacker broke into Diebold's servers in March using an employee's ID, and copied thousands of company announcements and internal e-mails. Jacobsen said the documents might have been altered afterward. The hacker e-mailed the data to voting activists, some of whom published stories on their Web logs. A freelance journalist at Wired News also received data and wrote about it in an online story. In one series of e-mails, a senior engineer dismisses concern from a lower- level programmer who questions why the company lacked certification for a customized operating system used in touch-screen voting machines. On Monday, a California advisory panel refused to certify new Diebold voting machines, saying it plans to investigate uncertified software and hardware that may have been used in a recent election. ___ On the Net: EFF: http://eff.org/ Cyberlaw Clinic: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/cases/ Diebold: http://www.diebold.com/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
