Just how powerful is Diebold, anyway?!

[NotThatNolan]

I can't believe it took me over a year to notice this. On my campus, many doors (especially into dorms) have a card key entrance that opens with a valid student ID. I didn't realize that one of the back doors to my dorm won't unlock from midnight until eight in the morning for security reasons, so I was trying to unlock it for a minute and thinking something was wrong with my card. Anyway, this caused me to pay more attention to the card swipe device than usual, and for the first time I noticed the word DIEBOLD on it.

This surprised me at first, but it didn't bother me too much until I started trying to see where else I could find Diebold on campus. Apparently they produced everything that uses a student ID. Basically, Diebold is the company behind a form of my personal identification. Every time I use my ID to pay for food (we have dining accounts as a part of our tuition) I'm plugged into some sort of Diebold system. What I wasn't expecting is that even the scale used to weigh food for value had a big DIEBOLD logo. I don't know that I trust Diebold enough to have them decide the price of my purchases, and I certainly don't trust them enough to be behind my most important form of identification for the next three years; the ID that I need to sign up for classes, take exams, purchase food, and do just about anything on compus.

Am I being paranoid to be bothered by the fact that my main form of ID on campus is run by Diebold?