[E-voting] Diebold voting machines vulnerability

[Fergal Daly]

Following that link or just going directly to blackboxvoting.org gives me a
"welcome to your new website" page. No trace of the real site at all. It's
time we all put on our tinfoil hats because I think they're about to switch
on the orbital mind-control lasers :-)

Seriously though, it's a bit of a coincidence that they break a story which
implies Diebold put in a "rig the vote" backdoor and they suddenly disappear
from the net. Court order against their ISP or something?

F


On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:16:15AM +0100, Casey, Dermot (GE Consumer Finance) wrote:
> >From http://boingboing.net/ 
> 
> Further evidence for the need for a VVAT!
> 
> Diebold voting machines vulnerability
> *Cory Doctorow*: Diebold's voting machines have a stunning security defect:
> 
>     Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator --
>     1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two
>     million votes at a time.
> 
>     By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of
>     votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no
>     longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read
>     the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change
>     the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has
>     implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks.
> 
>     This program is not "stupidity" or sloppiness. It was designed and
>     tested over a series of a dozen version adjustments.
> 
> Link <http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78> (/Thanks, 
> Michael!/) by Cory Doctorow on 31/08/2004 15:06
> 
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