Students Fight E-Vote Firm

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:24:28 +0100
From: Goncalo <goncalo () mail eunet pt>
Subject: For IP: Students Fight E-Vote Firm
To: dave () farber net


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Goncalo

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Full story at :
 http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60927,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

A group of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has launched an
"electronic civil disobedience" campaign against voting machine maker Diebold
Election Systems.

The students are protesting efforts by Diebold to prevent them and other
website owners from linking to some 15,000 internal company memos that reveal
the company was aware of security flaws in its e-voting software for years
but sold the faulty systems to states anyway. The memos were leaked to voting
activists and journalists by a hacker who broke into an insecure Diebold FTP
server in March.

Diebold has been sending out cease-and-desist letters to force websites and
ISPs to take down the memos, which the company says were stolen from its
server in violation of copyright law. It has been using the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA, to force ISPs to take down sites hosting
the memos or sites containing links to the memos.

Diebold did not respond to Wired News' requests for comment.

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