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Master Diebold Key Copied From Web Site

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-can't-be-real dept.

Harrington writes "In another stunning blow to the security and integrity of Diebold's electronic voting machines, someone has made a copy of the key which opens ALL Diebold e-voting machines from a picture on the company's own website. " Update: 02/06 17:40 GMT by Z : We previously discussed this story, early last year.

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  1. Details of picture in case of slashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The picture was of a piece of luggage with the combination of "12345."

    Pretty damn stupid to use that as a master key.

  2. Slashdot by Taimat · · Score: 2, Funny

    With the way it's gone so far today, apparently, slashdot is hosted in Iran.

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    1. Re:Slashdot by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Funny

      I keep getting this error message
      Am I reading too much into it?

      503 Service Unavailable
      The service is not available. Please try again later.

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  3. Re:Déjà vu? by dattaway · · Score: 4, Funny

    The real story is someone hacked a Diebold voting machine to host Slashdot. Notice how this site is running slower than usual, turning out false stories, and running dupes?

  4. Well... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the problem? We've all been demanding "open" elections.

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  5. Re:Déjà vu? by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The truth is that "Zonk," "CowboyNeal," etc. are actually just programs running on a server in Wisconsin. But the programs have a serious memory leak problems which only get worse if the server isn't rebooted ever few months. The guy who was supposed to reboot it this time couldn't afford the gas to Wisconsin.

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