NMM(-TV)SNBCNNBS: Fake News and Diebold Machines in Brazil | Google Video
A video editorial cartoon for votoseguro.org — and not a very good one. I should have mentioned that in case mentioned here, voting … all » machines and diskettes used to upload software into voting machines were discovered incinerated in a vacant lot next to the warehouse used by the election authority’s third-party contractor
On fake news and voting machines, see also “The People Have Faith in E-Voting, II”: Fake News in Prime Time, Brazilian Style.
The found footage, a YouTube editor’s choice the other day, is of the “spam trap” installation by Bill Shackelford. How succinct and witty a “new market machines” metaphor is that? It makes me nostalgic for all those Survival Research Lab robot wars I attended in my UC Bersekeley days.
I am happier with my second attempt at a YouTube promo spot for votoseguro.org, a Brazilian e-voting forum whom I have observed closely, find very credible, professional and transparent and, well, admire, actually, for what they have accomplished — including finally seeing a permanent subcommittee on e-voting set up in the Congress.
Pure flackery — advocacy speech — though hopefully with virtue of being reasonably complete. More complete than the video press release, at any rate. And not grossly inaccurate.
Any brain-farts contained therein are the not the Brazilians’ fault, however. I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting these folks, though I understand Engineer Amilcar is from Santos. Santos is a crazy town.
The same goes for the Paraguayans, who promised not to cut away from the demonstration. The blinking in the video is due to an “MPEG read” error when I was re-ripping the video, not a glitch in the original video.
I am not especially good at this.
I have not been able to find a lot of follow-up material on the Paraguayan case just by googling for it, I should add.
But yes: this model of the Brazilian voting machine has a wireless communications component, which experts have said is a security nightmare from hell.
And yes, the gross insufficiency of “digital signatures” (hashes, which are probably even more easily spoofed than the manuscript signature that serves as a metaphor for them) and other cross-checks on the uploading of software is a principal criticism of the Tupi voting geeks. As is the proprietary codebase, also mentioned there.
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