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Vote Tabulator Security Hole Exposed

Posted by timothy on from the poke-poke dept.

Doc Ruby writes "Black Box Voting has exposed a security hole in Diebold machines that tabulate votes collected from electronic voting machines. A code entered into the tabulator's user interface duplicates the "secure" counts into an insecure count which can be changed, and counted instead. The "double books" vulnerability and exploit were reported to the manufacturer over a year ago, and confirmed, while major customers (California and Washington states) were notified shortly thereafter. In spite of some revisions, the latest version of the software remains insecure. Diebold voting machines running GEMS version 1.18.x are vulnerable, running in about three dozen states. Although the software is widely deployed, and scheduled for use in shortly upcoming elections, risk mitigations are available, mostly protocols restricting physical or network access to the machines. Other auditing/accountability measures for ensuring only trusted access to the system are recommended."

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  1. Three dozen states by jpmkm · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What the fuck is the purpose of that link? I clicked on it thinking I was going to see a list of these three dozen states, but instead I find a site that has absolutely nothing to do with three dozen states.

  2. Election Stealing by Photar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Lemme guess. This is all about how the Republicans are going to steal the election... Again.

    Oh Please.

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  3. Diebold? Insecure? by ElForesto · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Say it ain't so.

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  4. No big problem. by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Thye're also coaunting votes for incoming judges, and -- buy the time this case reaches The Supreme Court, a good number of those judges should be appointees of Bush.

    Who, me? Jaded??!

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  5. Re:and JFK's whack..... by syrinx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    what the hell? the convenience store called, they're running out of tinfoil.

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  6. you're denying the obvious by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If O'Dell ran a dairy in Ohio, his committment would be negligible. But he runs the vote tabulators for Ohio, which have been demonstrated to include an obvious security flaw that allows the votes to be cooked. Why are you covering for this sleazy subverter of democracy? Do you work for Diebold, or for Bush?

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