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2006-05-17 9:02 AM

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Subject: Backdoor flaws found in Diebold e-voting machines

Excerpt:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9000449&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8

"These are built-in features, all three of them," said Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris. If a malicious person had access to a Diebold machine, the back doors could be exploited to falsify election results on the system, she said.

A Diebold spokesman did not dispute Hursti's findings but said that Black Box Voting was making too much of the matter because the systems are intended to remain in the hands of trusted election officials.

 

And we all know that "trusted election officials" would never let partisan bias or greed corrupt them! Although candidates raised $880 million during the last Presidential election in their desperate bids to be elected, I'm sure the funds would never be misused to buy the election. That would never happen here.



Edited by Renee 2006-05-17 9:07 AM


2006-05-17 9:09 AM
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Subject: RE: Backdoor flaws found in Diebold e-voting machines

Wow...that's just, uh...wow. I mean, after all the furor over purported election fraud in '00, and after the remedy of electronic voting, for the machines to be *deisgned* with a mechanism for enabling fraud. That's just incomprehensible. What possible justifiable use could that feature have?

 Also: heh...you said "backdoor flaws." That's awesome...

2006-05-17 9:36 AM
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Subject: RE: Backdoor flaws found in Diebold e-voting machines
run4yrlif - 2006-05-17 10:09 AM

What possible justifiable use could that feature have?



Some of the flaws were basically just testing / debugging stuff that were left in final release, but should've been removed. Some of the others relate to the ability to plug an external device in. In a way, that makes sense in case you want to patch / update / reload the device. But, it wasn't implemented well, because there's no real security checks in place to ensure the code on the device is legit or not.

Diebold has a long track record of problems related to E-Voting. Not that they're the only ones, just one of the more public.
2006-05-17 11:16 AM
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Subject: RE: Backdoor flaws found in Diebold e-voting machines
he he He said backdoor
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