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Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-but-that's-a-feature dept.

WhiteDragon writes "The folks at Open Voting Foundation got their hands on a Diebold AccuVote TS touchscreen voting machine. They took it apart (pictures here), and found the most serious security flaw ever discovered in this machine. A single switch is all that is required to cause the machine to boot an unverified external flash instead of the built-in, verified EEPROM."

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  1. Re:wrong question by 955301 · · Score: 5, Informative

    you suspected correctly. The current rep, Tom Feeney, representing South Florida rigged the US 2004 election election for his post.

    http://www.youtube.com/v/7WmC4grXdIk

    http://www.house.gov/feeney/

    very interesting video. The computer programmer explains what he was asked to do. He gets stupid at the end though and starts rambling off topic, but I blame that on too much time on Slashdot.

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  2. Voting in the USA by slashflood · · Score: 5, Informative

    20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

    Everyone who says that Diebold is too incompetent to create a secure voting maschine is following the wrong trail.