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The BRAD BLOG is a personal blog at bradblog.com about politics. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link BRAD BLOG posts as sources on electronic voting security, including Diebold voting machine master keys posted online and remote hacking of Diebold machines. The comments cite the posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The BRAD BLOG: Investigative journalism on democracy, elections, media accountability & environmental news since 2004. Home of 'The...
Most-linked posts?
- /?p=40663 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-06-24
What Hacker News says?
Very good question... Daniel Ellsberg wrote about a related story that was front page "London's Sunday Times" [1] and various foreign press. But searching Google for 2008-2010 there is zero mainstream American news coverage of that story or the 2009 deposition. Yet they covered her earlier whistleblowing heavily between 2002-2004. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-ellsberg/covering-up-th... Edit: upon further…
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on “A Decade-Old Gag Order, Lifted”Submitted NYS to Review Certified Vote System After 'Ballot Stuffing' Design Flaw Revealed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDiebold voting machine key copied from photo at company's own online store http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066#more-4066
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on “Killer escaped prison after being issued picture of master key”Submitted Judge Richard Posner's Dissent on Voter ID Laws [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of the story from a few years ago when Diebold got itself in trouble for showing pictures of their voting machine keys online: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066#more-4066 This also has me thinking about the "Light Field" story from two days ago. ( http://www.hackerne.ws/item?id=2681554 ) If that technology becomes common, and camera resolutions continue to improve, I bet you could lift people's thumbpr…
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on “House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera”Submitted Aaron Barr & Thomas Ryan = welfare queens and "cyber security" clowns? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMore info (although old news): http://www.bradblog.com/?p=1839 http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3467
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on “Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control”Submitted NC's Voting System 'Master Passwords' Found Online as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe focus of this argument seems to center around people casting multiple votes, "dead" people voting, etc. The problem is that there's no vote-verifiable trail and serious security issues with electronic voting booths. There was even a video interview with Howard Dean where he shows how easy it is to dink around in the MS Access database on voting machine and change the votes [0]. This [1] paper from 2003 sums up s…
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on “In Pennsylvania, Claims of a Rigged Election May Be Impossible to Disprove”Like Diebold posting photos of the master key on their website? [1] [1] http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066#more-4066
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on “Ask HN: Can the NSA influence electronic voting?”I thought North Korea were the master worldwide bogeymen hackers? Or wasn't it Chinese hackers doing everything. Neither the Republicans nor Democrats trust evoting. Standford Uni even went so far as to say evoting gives HRC a 9% advantage over Bernie ! [1] Which reminds us of when HRC called foul in 2004 [2] But Diebold were accused of a 7% bump for Clinton in 2008 [3] We don't need foreign bad actors. [1] http://w…
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on “By November, Russian hackers could target voting machines”
