Reply #8: Someone needs to inform Newsweek about Nov. issue of Popular Mechanics,

[No2W2004]

They have an article (very very good) about how easy it was for experts from the NSA to hack into 6 diebold touchscreens and thier server used by the state of Maryland for the primary (and the upcoming election.)

For instance:

You can pick the lock that protects the removable media that has the machines voting information with a paper clip. If you don't have a paperclip, then just get a key for any diebold machine, because they all use the same key!

The server uses Windows 2000. The one the team used didn't have any of the Micosoft recomended security upgrades. As of Sept. , the state of Maryland had not acted upon any of the 10 recomendations made by the team, which included rewriting the code so it wasn't so easy to hack in to.