Won't they get sued?
Won't the voting machine manufacturers just sue (or just threaten to sue) the researchers?
Posts by Herb LeBurger
15 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2013
Democracy-minded DEF CON hackers promise punishing probe on US election computers
McCain: Come to my encryption hearing. Tim Cook: No, I'm good. McCain: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you
These big-name laptops are infested with security bugs – study
Wednesday 1st June 2016 01:00 GMT
Re: Just load
@BitterExScientist,
I was at a developer conference recently where Dell had a booth for their Project Sputnik. I asked the dude at the booth what it was all about, he explained that they are Dell laptops with Linux preloaded. I asked "why not just install Mint on a ThinkPad?". He replied, "well if you want to go to all that trouble...". It's no trouble at all, I've been doing it for so long I don't even find it a chore. Just part of playing with the new shiny. And does anyone think Dell can resist putting crapware on their Linux boxes?
Seattle Suehawks: Smart meter hush-up launched because, er ... terrorism
Friday 27th May 2016 02:13 GMT 
I'll bet the FBI has set up a Stingray
... to find out what other shenanigans this Mocek character is up to. Even if they had to get a warrant, I'm sure telling the judge that he requested documents from the city would be enough to get it signed.
And while I'm betting:
"The information Sensus has redacted contains specific details that, if publicly released, would increase the risk of both cyber-intrusions and physical attacks on the utility grid," Sensus says in its filing.
Anyone else think these specific details are "The default password is 'password'. And the default password can't be changed." ?
Hillary Clinton broke law with private email server – top US govt watchdog
Thursday 26th May 2016 12:27 GMT
Re: "Printing and filing those records"
@DougS,
The State Department recording keeping policy requires keeping paper copies of emails? Citation please.
Or was Hillary's delivery of 55,000 pieces of paper just a big FU to the investigators? Bury them in paperwork, make it impossible to just run a search, easy to omit anything you don't want them to see, no metadata...
And no, this does not mean I support Drumpf. At best Hillary broke the rules because she didn't feel like following them. At worst she broke the rules because she planned to keep anyone from seeing some of her State Department communications. And she's still the lesser of two evils. The United States is truly Fucked.
Boffins achieve 'breakthrough' in random number generation
The bill for Home Depot after its sales registers were hacked: $19.5m
CIA boss uses AOL email – and I hacked it, claims stoner teen
Tuesday 20th October 2015 02:35 GMT
Re: This is the WTF of the millenium
You are so right. Fucking mind boggling that the head of the CIA has work related documents in a personal email account. I work in the financial services industry. We can't access personal email from work. Period. But does the US intelligence community have any such controls? Nope. Unfortunately this will be spun as "See, this is why we need more domestic spying!".
US mega-hack: White House orders govt IT to do what it should have done in the first place
Creationist: The Flintstones was an accurate portrayal of Dino-human coexistence
Ultimate hardware hack: Home Depot nailed by vice merchants
Microsoft charges the FBI $50 for a copy of your private data, claim 'Redmond hackers'
Saturday 22nd March 2014 16:13 GMT
Re: $50 for a user's data being profitable? Unlikely.
"Receipts filed under FBI Contract JFB108289 regularly exceeded hundreds of thousands of dollars a month"
Surely hundreds of thousands of dollars a month should cover the overhead of providing this data. If doing so were affecting their bottom line, corporations would be a lot more upset about it than the after the fact "we're outraged!" press releases that we've seen. I'd like to think that they would automate most of the process of transferring the data to law enforcement so each request becomes more of a button click than a manual process, but who knows. I understand that automation isn't free, but since they can basically name their price I don't see how they could fail to profit from this.
I'm sure all the corporations involved in the PRISM data transfers were also well compensated for the infrastructure they had to set up to support it. Not just repaid for their expense, but with profit - think government contract.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
