DOD Survey on DADT Repeal Has Major Security Flaws

In a bombshell post, John Aravosis of America Blog Gay reveals serious security flaws in the Department of Defenses multi-million dollar homophobic survey on DADT repeal. Without jeopardizing his sources, John indicates that he was able three times to log in and take the DOD survey without difficulty. Apparently, no software picked up the fact that he had take the survey multiple times using the same PIN and from the same computer - something even many minor league newspapers know to do when running online polls. It seems the folks at the Pentagon are not only homophobes, but cretins as well. How many times - and by whom - the survey has been breached isn't clear. One can readily see Elaine Donnelly circulating PINS numbers to her lunatic gay hating friends in an effort to further skew an already flawed survey. John's described experience truly suggests that the survey and its dubious results need to be thrown out based on flawed security. Here are highlights from America Blog Gay:
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So much for the Defense Department's super secret $4.5 million survey of the troops to ask them how they feel about repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." I, an avowed gay activist, just took the online chat part of the survey - three times in fact. Perhaps DOD should reconsider just how good and informative, and accurate, this survey is. (They also might want to get their money back.)
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In a nutshell, I was able to get three different PIN numbers to gain access to the online chat part of the survey three times, as three different people. Two of those times I was on the same computer, meaning there are no adequate safeguards to stop people from taking the survey multiple times - hell, I was logged in to the two surveys at the same time. And one of the three times, I was able to have a kid, who isn't military, participate in the survey, answering questions from a real human being (apparently) in a chat room of sorts. My intent - to find out whether or not the survey is secure, whether or not it can be hacked (well, this isn't even hacking). It's not, and it can.
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Another interesting point: I got my multiple PIN numbers from the same person, who was able to themselves get multiple PIN numbers. Meaning, military people can log in multiple times to get the PIN numbers they need to take the survey, so they, or their non-military friends - or even gay (or anti-gay) activists, can take the survey. I'm also told that DOD civilians can take the survey - with all due respect, who cares what they think? I thought this was about active duty military?
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The Pentagon is apparently now in full scale damage control and is trying to pretend that the survey itself wasn't breached. Do I buy that line? Not at all. I was warned by an inside source at Westat that the survey questions were homophobic as per Pentagon input and now we find out the whole system may have been swamped by far right homophobes. Remember, these are the same folks that claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before Chimperator Bush's ill fated invasion of that country. Do I trust them? Not at all. DOD and the Pentagon knew in advance the result they wanted on the survey and are apparently doing everything they can to kill DADT repeal with this abortion of a survey. Oh, Jim Webb, are you in on this scheme too?