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Dutch Blackbox Voting Pwned

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the playing-chess-at-the-polls dept.

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.

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  1. Racist headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dutch Blackbox Voting Pwned

    Blackbox!?

    It's African-American box.

  2. Re:"Pwned"?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Totally agree.

  3. What is this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is using the word "Pwned" a new trend here on slashdot or what?
    I thought we were a bunch of linux geeks, not windows 98, aol users.
    Come on!

  4. Re:"Pwned"?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wh4t!?? i t0t4lly thoght teh n00bs get like always pwnd and 0wned in teh r00m here. What you mean, no AOL chatroom??????????

  5. Re:PRAISE ALLAH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But I would walk 500 miles
    And I would walk 500 more
    Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles
    To fall down at your door
    When I'm working yes I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
    And when the money comes in for the work I'll do
    I'll pass almost every penny on to you
    When I come home yeah I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
    And if I grow old well I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you
    When I'm lonely yes I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you
    When I'm dreaming yes I know I'm gonna dream
    Dream about the time when I'm with you

    Screw you RIAA.

  6. are you a westerner? by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    where do you live in indonesia? i've always wanted to go, never been. sulawasi, flores, borneo. not interested in bali/ lombok, too touristy. java, not so much, except for borobudur/ yogyakarta. is it safe for westerners in the boondocks? i know medan/ ambon is nuts, but i think south sulawasi is ok. i'd love to see those wacky houses the torajans build

    salemat, cheers! ;-)

    --
    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  7. Excellent by Plutonite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a good week for America. Nasdaq is up, Barbra Streisand is back, and we've just discovered the Dutch are about as dumb as we are.