Some times, it does not pay to be first to the market, as Diebold is proving with their eVoting initiatives. They attempted to be the first major electronic voting powerhouse, building on their years of experience securing ATMS for financial transactions. But instead Diebold has been hounded at every step by criticism for their poor design, insecure measures, and lack of a paper audit trail. Now, apparently, Diebold is realizing that their eVoting division is bringing down the rep of the rest of the company and may not be worth its dubious profitability.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if Diebold released its code either as pure Open Source, or as some kind of Public Source initiative where you had to go to a government oversight committee to modify it. Could volunteers turn this code into something more secure and more useable?
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