How Much Info is too much Info

Read the first couple of paragraphs about this incident involving possible hacking of a voting machine in 2003. It seems legit, because a google search showed many other articles, including one by Princeton University.

Then listen to this guy tell you exactly how to hack this particular kind of voting machine. It's a bit of a spoof. There's actually not quite enough information to actually rig an election. You would still need to know the file format the program is expecting.

But here is my question. Should this be legal? Should it be legal to have a web site that tells you how to hack something as important as a Presidential election? Or how to make dangerous things or how to mug a pedestrian or how to do other "bad" things. And who decides what is "bad".

Finally, include a hyperlink in your post to a "good" site. A site you think provides "good" information. Maybe something you use from time to time. To get a hyperlink, select the text, then click on the icon with a fence link and type the URL.

Framed by Your Computer

from Time Magazine...

"Using Facebook photos as evidence, police in South Burlington, Vt., have charged a high school athlete with possession of alcohol - the second time in a year they used the website to make an underage bust. In June girls on the high school lacrosse team were ratted out by online pictures. The town's chief of police says his officers don't surf social-networking sites. In both cases parents first pointed out the photos."

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