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Old 10-25-2006, 08:00 AM   #1 (permalink)
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1) 1.3 Million.
Roughly the population of the state of Idaho.
The ENTIRE state of Idaho...

2) I can't wait to hear the "conspiracy" theories on this...
Republican side: "It's conveniently timed close to the November elections, and thus obviously a Democrat ploy"
Democrat side: "It's all about the electronic voting machines!"
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Software tester side: they didn't have real users test the software!

Until you do this, you can test til the cows come home, and not be able to create scenarios that real users will. Who would have thought to enter a single apostrophe in the last name field?
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What bothers Chicagoist is that problem could've been fixed years ago by applying the proper security patches to their database server, though bad design contributed as well (turns out they haven't needed SSNs to identify voters for three years now). The Board says they've fixed the problem, but if you try the technique Zelchenko demonstrated by entering a single quote for the last name at the registration site, you still see evidence of sloppy programming, which makes us wonder how many more holes are lurking out there.
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It boggles the mind thinking about how many databases contain so-called private information, and of those, how many are accessed via the web...
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