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...votes had been cast, according to Morris—Seiler, a computer science concentrator who worked at Google last summer, wrote a logging program from his own personal FAS account to address the database “vulnerability,” which Seiler said had existed since the system was first designed. The program he wrote would notify him anytime anyone accessed the MySQL database on which the votes were stored, he said...
After several probing questions from one concerned member of the student audience, Dean Marine acknowledges that there is "no way to guarantee that no one could have possibly manipulated the system," but that there is still no concrete evidence of hacking...
Vice-presidential candidate Eric N. Hysen '11 says that FAS IT is able to identify who logs into the system, and from where. But they did not find any such evidence. Hmm...so what else...
Assistant Dean of Harvard College for Student Life Susan Marine explains how the UC voting system works. She reads a long list of FAS IT reports, which concludes that the security scans and vulnerability assessment scans "found no significant issues" or "evidence of suspicious activity." Basically, information security was unable to conclude that the Audit Log had been modified...
...deny my honest words that I did not draft that first e-mail," McLeod says. She states that although the tone of that fateful message was inappropriate, "the spirit in which that e-mail was sent was was to draw attention to the [flawed] election system...