Friday, May 12, 2006

We Are So Screwed: Part "I've Lost Count"

Via Discourse.net

Surprise. Surprise. Several major vulnerabilities have just been reported in Diebold's touch screen voting systems.

The flaws are so significant that Black Box Voting redacted the technical details of the exploit from their report. Unfortunately this paragraph from the news release is enough to give it away :
Armed with a little basic knowledge of Diebold voting systems and a standard component available at any computer store, someone with a minute or two of access to a Diebold touch screen could load virtually any software into the machine and disable it, redistribute votes or alter its performance in myriad ways.
From that paragraph alone any hacker or security person worth a damned knows exactly what the vulnerabilities is and how to exploit it.

Diebold's reaction (via Unfogged) is comforting at least:
"For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software," he said. "I don't believe these evil elections people exist."
Translations :
Any exploit of this vulnerabilities is predicated on the idea that there are "bad" people in the world who might want to influence an election unfairly. And That's just crazy talk.

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