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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. Wow by Uttles · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are all the sore loser nerds in the world contained in this one thread? I can't beleive it. You LOST in 2004, fair and square. It wasn't because of vote fraud, it was because your candidate was a JOKE. So much of a JOKE, in fact, that he couldn't beat the current JOKE in office. Your only platform was "ABB" and people still voted for your sorry asses because GWB is such a JOKE. It wasn't the voting machine's fault. It was yours. Stop making excuses.

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    ~ now you know
  2. Re:Diebold lobbied slashdot... by hcob$ · · Score: 0, Troll
    I've noticed a disturbing trend... people seem willing to assume that no one in a position of power can possibly be corrupt.
    I've noticed a distrubing trend on /. People seem willing to assume that everyone in a position of power is corrupt. However, before we ASSume too much about each other's views, no system is perfect. I personally would prefer paper ballots where you place a CHECK MARK WITH A PEN next to the name you want, or write in a name that you would prefer. Still this can easily be rigged as well.
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    Cliff Claven
    K.E.G. Party Chairman
    Founding Leader of: Koncerned for Egalitarin Governance
  3. Re:Diebold lobbied slashdot... by sumdumass · · Score: 0, Troll

    And people could be commiting crimes so we should wiretap everyones phone calls, place cameras everywere, make them use a national ID card to enter any building so we can track thier locations. Male them file a travel plan whenever they take a trip over 50 miles away so we know they aren't speeding, commiting axe murders or hit and runs along the way. Maybe force the instalation of drug and alcohol testing machines on every car so we cna make sure they don't drive under the influance.

    There is a fine line between putting guards in place to stop a person from breaking a law and becoming a police state. It apears that we are attempting to make police states out of the possitions that we expect not to make our lifes a police state. When do we comprimise freedom for security and when do we expect those that aren't free to guard our freedoms. Sure some checks have to be in pace, but we have to make sure we don't go overboard.