The Diebold Voting-Machine Hack

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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Re:Money more important than a fair vote?

[sm62704]

I mean, these things could possibly affect the outcome of a vote, the foundation for a democratic republic!

In fairness, when a corporation can "donate" shitloads of money to both major candidates, that pretty much negates the elections, anyway. That's why copyright is now three lifetimes, pot is illegal even for medical purposes, the minimum wage hasn't changed in a decade, and few corporations pay any taxes.

That's the real reason voter turnout is so bad. They're not apathetic, they know they really have no choice.

I'm voting Loser Party this November, just as a futile protest. I wish everyone else would. Imagine everyone's horror if a Green or Libby candidate won?

If these were ATMs they'd have more security

[WillAffleckUW]

But since they're not, they're totally insecure.

Is Diebold in over their head?

[Anonymous Coward]

I get the impression that Diebold is a marketing company, a deal maker, much more than an engineering company. The series of mistakes their engineers have made cause me to doubt that their management is qualified to be supplying product to the voting machine market in the first place.