Internet Vote Fraud: Means, Motive, and Opportunity

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Internet Vote Fraud: Means, Motive, and Opportunity

 

 

 

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4898

 

Tuesday 28th December 2004 (12h58) :

Internet Vote Fraud: Means, Motive, and Opportunity

 

 

" Triad Governmental Systems, Inc. services voting tabulators via

modem " is absolutely breathtaking to us in the Information Technology

field. Triad non-chalantly used this modem method to reset machines in

preparation for the Ohio recount. No doubt that this is a practical

short-cut: Makes sense; it saves gas, time. In fact, this is the same

mechanism that I -- a computer consultant -- use to support 200

computers spread out across North Carolina.

 

It is now public record that Triad " legally hacked " into Van Wert

County, Ohio on December 9th, and other counties on different dates in

preparation for the recount. We, at the conspiracy farm, hardly feel

righteous indignation.

http://www.votecobb.org/recount/ohio_reports/counties/vanwert.php#dec21-o1

 

The big picture: Everything is fine until you consider that passive

modem-access means that these machines have been available for remote

re-configuration for months if not years. We know this because nothing

special was done (like Triad calling Van Wert's elections board) to

prepare for this recent remote connectivity. The connectivity has been

in place for legitimate purposes and we do have a suggestion that it

is against the rules for this remote login facility to be used for

illegitimate purposes.

 

No guarantees, but we do have anti-conspiracy rants that make us all

feel better.

 

According to the prestigious Software Engineering Institute at

Carnegie Mellon University, here is all it takes to commit a crime on

the Internet or modem access point

http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/homeusers/mmo.pdf

 

Means - the tools are there, nicely catalogued and ready to go.

Motives - with so much on the Internet, motives are there, whether the

priority is money, curiosity, politics, or power. Opportunity - there

are many, many access points to the Internet, most inexpensive and

some free.

 

In fact, go to

http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevote.htm

to find out how a Republican does it (for educational not criminal

purposes). Also, let's not forget about our open Wheel of VOTER

Challenge II: 2K in which no one has been able to contradict a popular

ftp.hack. ftp://ftp.hack./

 

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=4705

 

 

" We've all seen television police dramas where the detectives nab the

criminal by determining who has the means, the motive, and the

opportunity to commit a crime. They ask questions such as " Did the

suspect have the means to commit the crime? What did they have to

gain? Did they have the opportunity to carry out the crime? " We can

view trends in cyber attacks by looking at these same three

categories: means, motive, and opportunity. "

 

To further quote Lawrence R . Rogers: " In the current environment of

the Internet, attackers are motivated to steal computer cycles and

attack computers in other ways (including compromising information and

creating a denial of service by clogging the network). They may do it

out of curiosity or " bragging rights. " They may do it for power or

money, or for political/ideological reasons. Long gone are the days of

users and administrators knowing and trusting each other. Users on the

Internet are anonymous, and their number grows daily. The atmosphere

is not collegial, and trust is neither automatic nor always warranted. "

 

O.K., we now have the means (internet), motive (politics), and

opportunity (modem-accessible) to hack into a county's central

tabulator. Combine that with a close election in which only a few key

battleground counties needed to be manipulated and voila: Mr. Bush and

the War and Church machine.

 

We keep hearing there is no evidence of widespread fraud. But have we

heard there was no fraud at all?

 

We hear there were election problems to the tune of 57,000 GAO reports

but we are assured they were not enough to turn the election.

 

We hear there is no proof that these machines were tampered with.

These are the same reverse assurances gamblers get when they use Video

Poker machines.

 

Maybe we should ask Buddy Therrell, Nathan Ramsey, Timothy Scott

Guthrie and Kevin Wade Lemmonds who have been charged with possession

of illegal gaming machines. " Besides the machines, police confiscated

18 illegal circuit boards from one of the locations. "

http://www.pokermag.com/ManageArticle.asp?C=290 & A=9743

 

 

But don't listen to me, I am just a video poker conspiracy nut.

 

We now see that everyone on the internet has the means, motive, and

opportunity. Believe me, my Mom -- the John Birch Republican

(http://www.jbs.org) -- would have hacked the election if she could

have. But luckily the internet is a bastion of pure intents and

motives comprised of folks much better than my Mother. Hackers were

just trying to save America from itself, right? We certainly don't

want to wander down that dark scary alley of world peace, high

employment, fair wages, lower abortion rates, cleaner air, cleaner

water, respect.

 

We are much better off now. If this were a murder case, we would be

pushing for First Degree Murder. Manslaughter is reserved for

reasonable doubt. These machines should get the death penalty. The

hackers and vote-riggers are traitors. Now excuse me while these loose

votes and I go frolicking in a meadow.

 

I keep hearing Santa in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer saying to the

Senators, " c'mon Dancer, c'mon Daschle. " Contest the results NEXT

TUESDAY. America needs a hero, red nose and all.

 

And if you find yourself slipping back into comfortable numbness,

check out the Fraud Slide Show:

http://www.electionfraud2004.org/presentation/index.html

 

 

Robin Baneth rbaneth 919-828-3534

 

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by : Robin Baneth

Tuesday 28th December 2004