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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. Bad move by Z00L00K · · Score: 3, Interesting
    First it's a bad move to post the actual key on the website. Maybe it works on their ATM:s too?

    Second, from the appearance of the key it seems to be a lock that's EXTREMELY easy to pick so the effort to make a copy - even by trial and error - would be small.

    So if everybody that knows that Diebold machines are in use during an election makes their own key and just unlocks it and leaves the machine open... That could be for some interesting news. Votes dismissed due to irregularities - 50%. Just make sure that the machines is in the counties populated mostly by your opponent.

    And - what stops one from ordering keys from Diebold?

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