Reply #139: that's odd because that is not what Hursti has to say

[anoraksia53]

Hursti II is filled with new things that RABA never said anything about!!!

If you have any interest in facts you can see some of the differences spelt out by Jim March on BradBlog here.

Brad,

We have known the Diebold touchscreens load updates via PCMCIA cards for a long time now. Yes, RABA mentioned it. No doubt Doug Jones knew it. We at Black Box broke the story a year before RABA and then got it confirmed by James Dunn's declaration in early '04 - if you recall, he is the whistleblower Diebold temp who worked the California primaries and noted that different versions of Diebold files were getting loaded and not tracked.

What Harri added to the picture is the firm knowledge that there isn't any validation - nothing inherent in the system makes sure that what's loaded is a valid Diebold-supplied (and "certified", for whatever that's worth) file. You can load a copy of a tic-tac-toe game in there, give it the right filename for whatever type of file you claim it is, and the TS/TSx will load it.

The machine won't boot if it's an old videogame of course, but the point is there's no checking and it WILL start up a completely faked Windows CE installation or a "stunt bootloader".

That's problem one.

Problem two is that it's impossible for a county elections official to tell what code is really in there. Yes, the machine reports version numbers on startup but if you're going to fake a code set, faking the version numbers is simple.

Problem three is that given how critical physical ("case"] security is related to access to the PCMCIA slots, making sure anybody could get in and out with nothing but a standard Phillips screwdriver while leaving no trace is inexcusable.

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He tells more ways you are misrepresenting Hursti II for example some of the hardware vulnerabilities that surprize surprize are also never mentioned in RABA.........And YOU keep posting saying there is nothing new in Hursti II???

You just might want to check out the rest of that post in full because it shows just what you and your DU pals are doing and calls it for what it is.............

Get your facts straight buddy.