You know you’ve got too much spare time when…

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At least now I know you can run a Xen kernel on a Parallels virtual machine and actually experiment with it…
HBO SPECIAL Hacking Democracy
Watch it here, if you’re up for it.
As I stated before, I’m not a big fan of anything American and I really think they’re doing more wrong than right at the moment. But this report is disconcerning. Especially since we had all those troubles with electronic voting machines here too.
It just proves it, if you want it electronically, you want it Open Source. Not because I’d like to tinker with it and make it run on my 1337 machine, but because a democracy is all about having nothing to hide about how someone came to power.
I won’t be voting on a machine that doesn’t have any and all specs and software published and scrutanized by the voters themselves.