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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. meme seems appropriate by xanie · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm in your voting machine stealing your election.

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  2. America Has A Rootkit by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    And no, SpybotSD can't help you.

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  3. We've heard it before but... by Sgt_Jake · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How come no one seems to be asking the slot machine manufacturers to make voting machines? They deal with millions - or billions - of dollars a day and seem to be able to account for every single penny accurately. As an added bonus, all they'd really have to do is change the 7's to donkeys and jackpots to republicans... Pull the lever for your new rep! Seriously though - they're the people who should be making the machines...

  4. Re:firmware flash by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You don't want to do any flashing around these machines. The little old ladies behind the voting table will be watching you like a hawk and they're swoop down on you so fast with their canes before you could even think about flashing anyone. If you want a safe voting experience, you must see no evil, hear no evil or speak no evil when the voting machine flashes you!

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

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

    -the real jdm

  6. Re:Who would want to tamper? Terrorists by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Possible Future, Nov 4th, 2008
    "While exit polls conducted by our station and others showed Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain neck-in-neck at nearly 50% in this highly contested state of Ohio, initial results from available precincts shows the winner of the state, and thus the country, as Osama bin Laden, with 107% of the vote. A tape allegedly featuring Mr. bin Laden was broadcast by the al Jazeera network just minutes ago, in which the terrorist mastermind said he was pleased by the clear mandate the capitalist pig masses had given him, and that he hoped his transition from a cave somewhere in Pakistan to the Oval Office would go smoothly. Back to you, Tom."

    I don't know, think that would wake people up?

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  7. 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?

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