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Diebold Security Foiled Again

Posted by Zonk on from the please-think-then-vote dept.

XenoPhage writes "Yet again, Diebold has shown their security prowess. This time they posted, on their website, a picture of the actual key used to open all of their Diebold voting machines. Ross Kinard of Sploitcast crafted three keys based on this photo. Amazingly enough, two of the three keys successfully opened one of the voting machines. But fear not, Diebold has removed the offending picture, replacing it with a picture of their digital card key. Take that, hackers!"

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  1. Re:Still in business by pilgrim23 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ever checked your bank balance? Diebold makes ATM machines, and many other accounting and tabulating devices used in modern banking.. Every one of us can point to our bank balance which is $4-$20 off every month, always in the bank's favor. That is, all hundred millions of us...
    The only real question is: what is the percentage of the cut?

    Stuffing the mattress would be a solution, if only the actual dollar could maintain the same value it had last Tuesday....

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  2. Its Amazing by JustNiz · · Score: 0, Troll

    How many total F-ups this company can make, how many times their claim they fix their security and it's proven still broken, or worse, how strangely it seems that all the states using Diebold machines have developed a strange skew towards a high Republican vote count, ...and still the government will use their equipment.

  3. Re:the only thing.. by User+956 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Guess that explains the democratic sweep of congress. Yep. GOP cheated.

    Study Kissinger and the Vietnam war, and get back to me on that. (the Key concept: Kissinger's "Decent Interval")

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