Danny O'Brien has a new column in OSDir, called "To Evil," in which he rounds up the month's greatest technology villains. Here's his latest column, which skewers Diebold, CherryOS, and Ubuttnakedness.
In the US, black-box technologies mean no-one can peek at the proprietary code and procedures which drive vote-counting technology. That's upsetting to many open source advocates, especially when the machines chase them out of the voting booth rending electoral officials, limb from limb, roaring "I'LL GIVE YOU SPOILED VOTE, JELLY LIMBS!". Hey, it happens…
For instance, bemused election officials noted this election that after 32000 votes were tallied, their county's vote counts started going *down*.
The more experienced programmers among you will realise, with mounting amazement, that somebody, somewhere stored the *only* variable that matters in a voting machine to a signed short.
(Thanks, Steve!)
