Man-In-the-Middle Remote Attack On Diebold Voting Machines

An anonymous reader tips news of a vulnerability discovered in the Diebold Accuvote voting system, which could be used to alter voting results without leaving evidence of tampering. Quoting Salon: "[T]he Argonne team's attack required no modification, reprogramming, or even knowledge, of the voting machine's proprietary source code. ... The team's video demonstrates how inserting the inexpensive electronic device into the voting machine can offer a "bad guy" virtually complete control over the machine. A cheap remote control unit can enable access to the voting machine from up to half a mile away. ... The video shows three different types of attack, each demonstrating how the intrusion developed by the team allows them to take complete control of the Diebold touch-screen voting machine. They were able to demonstrate a similar attack on a DRE system made by Sequoia Voting Systems as well."

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Good thing i live in a country where...

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...voter fraud machines aren't allowed in general elections. Company's can build these shitty fraudy things, they can sell them to any foreign government and let them fraud there votes, but it is not okay to do it here(tm) and that is okay. Which is, in my opinion (hahaha), one of the best things ever! Screaming "USA USA USA" and demanding tax cuts just doesn't change anything. But having good regulations, a good supreme court and everybody paying their fair share, does. So US get your act together and ban these fraud machine crap. Whining about it bugs and flaws, thinking about asking companys to fix them, will not get you anywhere!