Diebold Insider Comments on Voting System Flaw 466
Call Me Black Cloud writes "A Diebold insider is blowing the whistle on the company's continued lack of concern about security holes in its voting software. The insider wrote to Brad Friedman, a somewhat shrill political blogger, claiming the company is instructing technicians to keep quiet about the security flaws. This is despite the vulnerability being listed on the US-CERT website for the last year. A Diebold company rep admits the software can be remotely accessed via modem, but states, "it's up to a jurisdiction whether they wish to use it or not...I don't know of any jurisdiction that does that." The insider disputes that, claiming several counties in Maryland made use of the feature in 2004." This in addition to the fact that Blackboxvoting already hacked the system using a chimp last year.
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Ha! I knew it! (Score:5, Funny)
To the plank with the Diebold Scaliwags! Arr!
Re:Two words (Score:2, Funny)
00' - selected by SCotUS
04' - selected by Diebold
Re:It had to be said. (Score:3, Funny)
Oh God, we are soooo screwed.
it makes sense (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Interesting article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It had to be said. (Score:5, Funny)
"Garbage In / Garbage Out"
I'm not surprised that the Diebold model number of the voting machines last election were GIGO 5000s.
I for one... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I have a question. (Score:4, Funny)
Because they have animated of gifs of rotating police lights on their websites? I dunno.
It's still getting better (Score:3, Funny)
Hardest comouting task EVER! (Score:3, Funny)
Lets see
if(button==1)
TirdSandwitch++;
else if(button==2)
GiantDouche++;
As you can see, there are millions of bugs that could happen in this scenario.
Of course it is flawed! (Score:1, Funny)
I'll be the Devil's Advocate.... (Score:4, Funny)
"Diebold threatened violators with immediate dismissal," the insider, who we'll call DIEB-THROAT, explained recently to The BRAD BLOG via email. "In 2005, after one newly hired member of Diebold's technical staff pointed out the security flaw, he was criticized and isolated."
Ok... so this whistle blower who worked for Diebold went to The New York Times? No. Went to The Washington Post? No. Went to a... newspaper? No. This whistleblower went to The Brad Blog. Any questions?