...Or did they?...

...Well, go figure.

That skill set should come in very handy down
there in, of all places, San Diego, where the far-right Republican Board of Supes,
and the far-right Republican Registrar of Voters office, have never met a hackable Diebold electronic voting
system they didn't love.

I recall "Strider" (Krvaric) and the "Fairlight" boyz from my own C-64 and
BBS "warez" swapping days in the late 80's. Those guys, and the other
incredibly competitive pirate crews, could crack anything, anytime,
usually within minutes after a new piece of software hit the market (and
often, even before it did!).

But no doubt, the air-tight, mission-critical, impenetrable security in Diebold's voting systems
would be beyond the reach of d00dz like Strider and friends. And, of course,
there's far more to gain by a 17-year-old "Strider" cracking
the codes of, say, International Karate Plus and Shoot 'em Up
Construction Kit than there ever would be for him, as county GOP chair, to
hack an election in San Diego, right? I mean, what would possibly be
the upside to that?

Miriam Raftery's excellent two-part investigative exclusive for RAW STORY
(and for me, at least, a trip down memory lane) is here
(Part 1) and here
(Part 2).