There’s two kinds of fame in my world:

  1. The 15 minutes of fame that accompanies things like the Nobel Peace Prize (I just saw Wangari Maathai speak at Busboys and Poets this past Friday. Her remarks included the significance of a environment being recognized by the Nobel committee, and it’s role in contributing to peace.) and
  2. Being the lead story on Slashdot

Linda Schade and TruevoteMD achieved the second honor tonight. By the time you read this, they will have moved down the page, but the permanent link is at the end of my post. You will also find the characteristic Slashdot discussion of the issue dense with entries by computer savvy professionals on a topic they care about and have deep knowledge of.
Slashdot sez:

opencity writes
“The Washington Post reports on the two Diebold source disks that were anonymously sent to a Maryland election official this past week. Further investigation has lead individuals involved to believe the disks came from a security check demanded by the Maryland legislature sometime in 2003.”
From the article:
“Critics of electronic voting said the most recent incident in Maryland casts doubt on Lamone’s claim that Maryland has the nation’s most secure voting system. “There now may be numerous copies of the Diebold software floating around in unauthorized hands,” said Linda Schade, co-founder of TrueVoteMD, which has pressed for a system that provides a verifiable paper record of each vote.

Read the rest of the Slashdot story here.