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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.'"

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  1. Re:firmware flash by sm62704 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I got flashed in a bar once, the bartender barred the flasher. Pity, the flasher had big tits!

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  2. Re:firmware flash by thedrunkensailor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    here's the question though: were they perky?

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