And see sections 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 in the Rebutting Shamos cite referred to above, in which the problem with concealed wireless devices is discussed and consider that Microsoft's operating system, relied on by the vendors', has built-in remote functionality.
7. "Declaration of intent. A continuing problem of a free government is the maintenance among its public servants of moral and ethical standards which are worthy and warrant the confidence of the people. The people are entitled to expect from their public servants a set of standards above the morals of the market place. A public official of a free government is entrusted with the welfare, prosperity, security and safety of the people he serves. In return for this trust, the people are entitled to know that no substantial conflict between private interests and official duties exists in those who serve them."
McKinney's NY Public Officers Law, § 74 (emphasis supplied)
8. Trojan horse software refers to malicious software that can steal entire elections without detection because it is designed to hide or destroy itself after it has done its dirty work, hence the Trojan horse name.
9. The Security and Assurance in Information Technology Laboratory (SAIT) for the State of Florida, reviewing the ES&S DREs which caused the loss of 18,000 missing votes in the last election found:
A cleverly constructed virus can cover its tracks so that infected machines could not be detected by ordinary means and an appropriately programmed virus could self-destruct and erase all its tracks....[I]f carefully constructed, it can allow an attacker to transfer program control to her own malicious code. Once this happens, the attacker controls the machine.
[p 37-38] of February 23, 2007 stu dy at http://election.dos.state.fl.us/pdf/FinalAudRepSAIT.pdf.
10. Interview of Matt Blaze, http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mary_ann_070903_voice_of_the_voters_3a.htm.
11. Characteristically in Western movies the carpetbagger/traveling salesman would leave town before the good defrauded town people realized the snake oil they'd bought (the contents of which, like the voting machines, were always concealed) was not the magical panacea they were led to believe it would be. As set forth in my second Vendor Irresponsibility memo referred to earlier, two of the three major voting vendors are looking for buyers for their voting systems' companies and having trouble finding any takers. Whether they succeed in disappearing or declare bankruptcy or pay millions of dollars in litigation to the states trying to recover some of their losses, is of no consequence: they've still left the nation conned and struggling to cope, with illegitimate election results and no secure way to vote in 2008.
12. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andi_nov_071010_letter_to_ny_s_gover.htm
