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Hotel Minibar Key Opens Diebold Voting Machines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the expensive-miniatures-and-macademia-nuts dept.

Billosaur writes, "As if Diebold doesn't have enough to worry about! On the Freedom To Tinker blog, Ed Felten, one of the co-authors of the recent report 'Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine', reveals an even more bizarre finding related to the initial report. It turns out that you can gain access to an AccuVote-TS machine using a hotel minibar key. In fact, the key in question is a utilitarian type used to open office furniture, electronic equipment, jukeboxes, and the like. They might as well hand them out like candy."

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  1. super key? by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me see, this key opens voting machines, mini-bars, jukeboxes, etc? Sounds pretty shiny, where do I get one! I need to add it to my lil' bastard music-copying, alcohol-drinking, electrion-throwing kit.

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  2. Re:Why would we expect anything else? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    All this cuffuffle about voting. We should just leave it for the President to decide. He seems to make good decisions.

  3. Please....just give us partiy with Slot Machines by instantkarma1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pretty please...with sugar on top.

    Either make voting machines as secure as slot machines, or let mini bar keys open up slot machines.

    Either or. I'm not picky.