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"The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened with a standard key that is widely available on the Internet. On Wednesday we did a live demo for our Princeton Computer Science colleagues of the vote-stealing software described in our paper and video. Afterward, Chris Tengi, a technical staff member, asked to look at the key that came with the voting machine. He noticed an alphanumeric code printed on the key, and remarked that he had a key at home with the same code on it. The next day he brought in his key and sure enough it opened the voting machine. This seemed like a freakish coincidence — until we learned how common these keys are. Chris’s key was left over from a previous job, maybe fifteen years ago. He said the key had opened either a file cabinet or the access panel on an old VAX computer. A little research revealed that the exact same key is used widely in office furniture, electronic equipment, jukeboxes, and hotel minibars. It’s a standard part, and like most standard parts it’s easily purchased on the Internet. We bought several keys from an office furniture key shop — they open the voting machine too. We ordered another key on eBay from a jukebox supply shop. The keys can be purchased from many online merchants."

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1064

So, in addition to the encryption which is, by all accounts, trivial, the physical case to the memory card is insecure as well.

The big question is, if the previous problems haven't killed it, will this get rid of the Diebold AccuVote-TS? Will it, in the very least, force a change?

9/19/2006 10:47:22 AM

You'd be disenfranchising millions of electron voters

9/19/2006 12:55:00 PM

I think the democrats should attempt and exploit this flaw to their advantage.

9/19/2006 1:02:24 PM

CNN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxKnlgvlwBY&eurl=
Fox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JESZiLpBLE

9/19/2006 1:07:34 PM

I can't believe bush did this

what an asshole

9/19/2006 1:09:32 PM

Why have 201 Democrats only 11 Republicans supported verifiable voting legislation? Why hasn't the legislation been voted on?

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.00550:

[Edited on September 19, 2006 at 1:17 PM. Reason : .]

9/19/2006 1:16:56 PM

no idea


why were dead people voting for democrats all over the country?

9/19/2006 1:18:41 PM

Jesus Christ, how did this thread turn partisan already?

9/19/2006 1:20:55 PM

sorry guys...

I was acting like yall

9/19/2006 1:24:53 PM

you were the first one to make this partisan

both parties should want accurate voting

9/19/2006 1:29:59 PM

Quote :

"both parties should want accurate voting"

9/19/2006 1:34:35 PM

^ If pryderi is right, it doesn't seem that they do.

9/19/2006 1:37:56 PM

he could have found instances where the left did shady shady shit during elections too, the fact remains that they all are shitty


I think there needs to be reform all around

9/19/2006 1:41:46 PM

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"why were dead people voting for democrats all over the country? "

Because, apparently we're the party of death.

Quote :

"I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president."

Diebold's CEO, Wally Odell 2004

[Edited on September 19, 2006 at 2:22 PM. Reason : Wally]

9/19/2006 2:18:27 PM

Here's a fun one.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11717105/robert_f_kennedy_jr__will_the_next_election_be_hacked/1

Quote :

"'Chris Hood remembers the day in August 2002 that he began to question what was really going on in Georgia... "It was an unauthorized patch, and they were trying to keep it secret from the state," Hood told me. "We were told not to talk to county personnel about it. I received instructions directly from [president of Diebold election unit Bob] Urosevich...' According to Hood, Diebold employees altered software in some 5,000 machines in DeKalb and Fulton counties, the state's largest Democratic strongholds. The tally in Georgia that November surprised even the most seasoned political observers. (Hint: Republicans won.)"

From the US-CERT page and referring to diebold voting machine software:

Quote :

"A vulnerability exists due to an undocumented backdoor account, which could a local or remote authenticated malicious user modify votes. No workaround or patch available at time of publishing. " "

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB04-252.html#diebold

10/2/2006 11:30:26 AM