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"Diebold Voting Machines Vulnerable to Virus Attack"
Aug 3, 2007 | 10:01 AM
Category: Political
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Here's a bit:

 

"Diebold Election Systems Inc. voting machines are not secure enough to guarantee a trustworthy election, and an attacker with access to a single machine could disrupt or change the outcome of an election using viruses, according to a review of Diebold's source code.

"The software contains serious design flaws that have led directly to specific vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit to affect election outcomes," read the University of California at Berkeley report, commissioned by the California Secretary of State as part of a two-month "top-to-bottom" review of electronic voting systems certified for use in California.

The assessment of Diebold's source code revealed an attacker needs only limited access to compromise an election.

"An attack could plausibly be accomplished by a single skilled individual with temporary access to a single voting machine. The damage could be extensive -- malicious code could spread to every voting machine in polling places and to county election servers," it said."

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,
135461-c,onlinesecurity/article.html

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Imagine my complete lack of shock.

MoonOwl 

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I'm a 45yr old DomesticGoddess and MamaRaptor. I'm out-spoken, opinionated & totally unPC.

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