Insanely Awe-dical

I was reading this article about the security holes in AccuVote, a touch-screen voting system.  A professor from a university wrote a report slamming its security flaws. 

"He excoriated Diebold's software designers, who had built passwords such as 1111 into the machines, and said he would have flunked them in basic computer security classes" (taken from washingtonpost.com).  Haha I feel bad for those programmers, but they did not thoroughly test.  Then it dawns on me the importance of software engineering from 2^nd year.  Maybe they did test well, and as the adage goes – for each bug that is fixed, another bug is created. 

Still, knowing that a government agency wants a super secure voting system, I’d think they would have extremely thorough testing.  For non-professionals to easily see through the flaws draws light to either the brilliance of educators, or the negligence of professionals. 

Oh yah another note: If you are making a program that needs to be ultra-secure, DON’T LEAVE IT ON AN OPEN INTERNET SITE. 

Just in case you were in a position to be thinking “Hmmm…this internet site is freely accessible by anyone.  Hell, Google can probably find it.  Should I upload this voting system and create a huge security risk?”  The answer is NO – PUT THE MOUSE DOWN YOU MORON AND FIRE YOURSELF BEFORE YOU CREATE MORE SECURITY RISKS.