Reply #118: Attack? What Attack? Just another opinion.... [View All]

[ParanoidPat]

....based in part on the knowledge of what is actually in the code. :)
I never said you, personally felt that way and I'm sorry if you took it that way. Perhaps I could have expressed it better.

The fact remains that some people do feel that it's 'no big thing' to have anything less than the very highest level of security available when such an important decision is being made. It's just my humble opinion that the same level of security used by our armed forces for communications and authentication should be employed when selecting the person who is in control of those forces.

As far as the video game security issue is concerned, I know both 'gamers' and 'game programmers' and security is a constant battle between the two camps. I can assure you that there is a much higher emphasis placed on keeping the latest games secure than is used by people who leave the source code for something as important as a voting terminal on an open, unprotected server! :)
If you want to get a real warm and fuzzy feeling Google Access + vulnerability, then browse the over 900,000 page hits and start listing as many different ones as you can find.
Have fun! :)