@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: (resend) cj#341> CIA, drugs and spying trapdoors > It reminds me of a story I read in the SF press a few months prior > to the Nicaragua elections in which the Sandinista's supposedly > lost. It seems an NSA team raided an East Bay company that writes > the vote-counting software used almost everywhere. The NSA was > purportedly checking for trapdoors -- to keep us all safe. What > more perfect opportunity to _emplant_ a trapdoor I am very interested in tracking down that story, and the aftermath. Currently, the Indian election commission has written to all political parties, saying they plan to introduce electronic voting machines in some constituencies in the '96 federal elections. They already tried to do that in 1989, when we suggested possibilities of such trapdoors (same as Trojan Horses?), as well as raised questions of training, transparency, reliability, lack of independent recount possibility, etc. and managed to stymie the whole thing. I'm interested particularly in comments, expertise, etc. that people might have (for instance, where would people be discussing this? the risks forum?) because one of the parties has asked for my help in formulating a reply to the Election Commission. Arun Mehta, B-69 Lajpat Nagar-I, New Delhi-24, India. Phone 6841172,6849103 •••@••.••• •••@••.••• •••@••.••• http://mahavir.doe.ernet.in/~pinaward/arun.htm "I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."--Gandhi @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Arun, The article about the NSA was in the SF Chronicle sometime in the six-month period before the elections. So far as I know, it went generally unnoticed -- I've seen no other comment on the voting-fraud possibility, nor any other suggestion of a connection between the two events. But the potential is clear and the possibility not to be ignored. The Norman & Quin interview should provide some grist for your reply to the Election Commission -- modus operandi. Cheers, Richard @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Richard K. Moore (•••@••.•••) Wexford, Ireland •••@••.••• | Cyberlib=http://www.internet-eireann.ie/cyberlib ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
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