Diebold Voting Systems Grossly Insecure

Posted by michael on Thursday July 24, 2003 @04:57AM from the vote-early-vote-often dept.

Several well-known security researchers have examined the code for Diebold's voting machines (which we last mentioned two weeks ago) and produced an extensive report (pdf). The NYT has a story on the report, which cuts to the bone: 'Our analysis shows that this voting system is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts. We highlight several issues including unauthorized privilege escalation, incorrect use of cryptography, vulnerabilities to network threats, and poor software development processes. For example, common voters, without any insider privileges, can cast unlimited votes without being detected by any mechanisms within the voting terminal.'

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Links/mirrors by mjmalone · 2003-07-24 05:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

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Re:Ah-ha! by CleverNickName · 2003-07-24 06:09 · Score: 1, Redundant
For example, common voters, without any insider privileges, can cast unlimited votes without being detected by any mechanisms within the voting terminal.

Pick your favorite, and moderate as needed:
- Now that's power to the people!
- Darn those pesky 'common voters!' Elections would be so much easier without them!
- Yes! Finally! We 'common voters' can live like Kennedys!
- Yes! Finally! We 'common voters' can live like Bushes!
- $Mayor.Quimby
(of course, the *truly* funny thing to do would be to moderate this as 'redundant.' Get it? I slay me.)