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Dutch Blackbox Voting Pwned
An anonymous reader writes, "In a just-published report (PDF, in English, cached here), the Dutch we-don't-trust-voting-computers foundation (Dutch and English) details how it converted a Nedap voting machine, of a type used in Holland and France, to steal a pre-determined percentage of votes and reassign them to another party. The paper describes in great detail how 'anyone, when given brief access to the devices at any time before the election, can gain complete and virtually undetectable control over the election results.' As a funny bonus, responding to an earlier challenge by the manufacturer, the researchers reflashed a voting machine to play chess. The news was on national television (Dutch) last night and is growing into a major scandal. 90% of the votes in the Netherlands are cast on these machines and national elections will be held in a month." Please create mirrors for the 8.1-MB PDF and post their URLs. You might also try John Graham-Cumming's l8r.org service to tell you when the slashdot effect subsides from any of the mirrors.
Since we probably won't be seeing elections thrown by a brothah-from-another-gov'nah this time around, we can look forward to crackerz paid well by the republican contingient to ensure the victory in '08.
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I wonder if any "patriotic" Americans crackers will hack the digital machines collecting/counting votes in the upcoming election to favor Democrats in response to all the reports the past 6+ years that Republicans are getting more than their share of the benefit.
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make install -not war
In any case, if you actually did something like that to a Diebold machine in the US, Diebold would descend upon you with the full force of the DMCA, try to shut you up, and not do a thing about the machines.
Then the Republican Party would happily go on to violate said DMCA by using your vote-rigging code without permission.