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Hacking a Diebold voting machine.

Posted: 2006-09-14 07:09pm
by Yogi
Evidently, if you insert a memory card and reboot, the machine will boot from the memory card.

Re: Hacking a Diebold voting machine.

Posted: 2006-09-14 07:15pm
by Jalinth
Read this (and the linked paper) for some harder details.

http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/blogs/tokaji/2 ... uvote.html

Very interesting. Scary, but interesting.

I thought the points about needing to change actual election procedures was also well taken.

Posted: 2006-09-14 09:58pm
by The Yosemite Bear
old news and resulting in a new series of lawsuits

Posted: 2006-09-14 11:53pm
by Cthulhuvong
Bah, I'm glad I live in an area that does it the old fashioned way: markers with special inks that allows the machine to count only the votes marked.

Posted: 2006-09-15 01:06am
by The Yosemite Bear
California insisted on a paper trail as well, as the electronic cards.