The Diebold files were not stolen by a hacker: Re: More letters sent to students re: Diebold

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:04:37 -0500
From: Gordon Cook <cook () cookreport com>
Subject: The Diebold files were not stolen by a hacker: Re: [IP] More letters
 sent to students re: Diebold
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To: dave () farber net, dewayne () dandin com

The Harvard Crimson wrote:


> Diebold has claimed that the posting the documents-which were stolen by a
> hacker in March 2003-is a copyright violation.
>
> Slater said the University has disabled online access to the documents.


They were not stolen by a hacker.

They were found on January 23, 2003 by Beverly  Harris during a google 
search of global election systems web site.  The last choice was FTP.  She 
clicked and the entire FTP part of the web site was open and not password 
protected.  harris explains in great detail exactly what happened in 
chapter seven of her book.

For the book which she has used creative commons to license go to
http://blackboxvoting.com/  for all the pdfs which however are actually at
clicking the next will get chapt 7 with one click

http://thoughtcrimes.org/bbv/bbv_chapter-7.pdf

READ THE BOOK!  It boogles the mind!
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