Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

The Diebold Voting-Machine Hack

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-say-can't-because-you-can dept.

Warm John writes to mention a short article on Doctor Dobbs Journal about the Hack that couldn't be done. "Hacking a Diebold voting machine was the focus of Cigital's Gary McGraw's keynote at SD Best Practices. He discussed 'Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine,' a paper released by Edward Felten, Ari Feldman, and Alex Halderman of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. 'The paper details a simple method whereby the Princeton team was able to compromise the physical security of a Diebold voting machine, infecting it with a virus that could change voting results and spread by memory-card to other machines of the same type.'"

4 of 277 comments (clear)

  1. Scary by sm62704 · · Score: 4, Informative

    In Illinois we get a paper printout that you check for accuracy and put in a ballot box; we can actually have a real recount.

    That's incredibly weird, considering this IS Illinois, where they say "vote early, vote often," where dead people still have a right to vote, and the last two governors who lost elections went to prison (or will, in the case of Ryan).

    --
    mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
  2. Re:Could be modded as flamebait... by nezroy · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/

  3. Re:Soo.. by OWJones · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thank you for stealing an earlier post of mine absolutely verbatim.

    -the real jdm

  4. Army of One by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ed Felten is also the guy who hacked the MS DLL that "integrated" IE into Windows to remove IE without destroying the OS, proving in court that Microsoft's defense of their illegal bundling, "it was technologically necessary", was a lie. Though Felten was not even a Windows specialist, and certainly didn't have the source code to delete IE cleanly, he was the the key to the court finding that MS had violated their antibundling consent agreement, the key to finding they'd violated their monopoly status.

    Now he's the guy proving Diebold voting systems are insecure.

    Isn't anyone else in our giant, brilliant "computer science" industry doing anything? Or are they all working for the bad guys?

    --

    --
    make install -not war