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Surprise! Another serious hole in Diebold voting machines...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Squier)
Mon May 15 17:32:14 2006

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From: Bill Squier <groo@old-ones.com>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:35:55 -0400

...okay, not so much surprise.

   [...]

   Scientists said Diebold appeared to have opened the hole by making  
it as
   easy as possible to upgrade the software inside its machines. The  
result,
   said Iowa's Jones, is a violation of federal voting system rules.

   "All of us who have heard the technical details of this are really  
shocked.
   It defies reason that anyone who works with security would  
tolerate this
   design," he said.

   [...]

     http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/ 
election_machin_1.html
     (http://tinyurl.com/rqw23)


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