Yup, that's me. A couple weeks ago, the source code to Diebold's voting terminal mysteriously appeared on a web site in New Zealand. We put together a team of researchers to study it, and ultimately cranked out that report. At this point, we're in something of a P.R. battle with the vendor and some of their customers who can't seem to wrap their heads around just exactly how easy it is to compromise an election using one of these things. More recently, a Diebold spokesman confirmed that the code we read is exactly the code that ran in November 2002 in Georgia, among other places.

So, yeah, this sort of thing can be a lot of fun (saving democracy and all), but it's also stressful. It's not often that I get woken up by a phone call at 7am (central) from an L.A. talk radio station that wants do a live interview at 7:40am (central == 5:40am pacific). It's been quite a ride. Of course, test driving zippy cars can be an excellent stress reliever...