"All you need is a screwdriver"

[Human Torch]

Group identifies new flaws in Diebold evoting machines

RAW STORY
Published: Monday July 31, 2006

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Voring_machine_grup_identifies_new_flaws_0731.html



The Open Voting Foundation, a California-based nonprofit organization that works to promote the adoption of "open source" technology to the nation's voting machines, has announced it has found what it calls the "worst ever security flow found in Diebold RS voting machines."

The Foundation claims to have discovered a switch inside of the machine which, when flipped, can have the machine operate in "a completely different manner compared to the tested and certified version."

"Diebold has made the testing and certification process practically irrelevant," said the Foundation's President Alan Descert, in a statement obtained by RAW STORY. "If you have access to these machines and you want to rig an election, anything is possible with the Diebold TS -- and it could be done without leaving a trace. All you need is a screwdriver," he continued.

---SNIP---

This is not a minor variation from the previously documented attack point on the newer Diebold TSx. To its credit, the TSx can only contain one boot profile at a time. Diebold has ensured that it is extremely difficult to confirm what code is in a TSx (or TS) at any one time but it is at least theoretically possible to do so. But in the TS, a completely legal and certified set of files can be instantly overridden and illegal uncertified code be made dominant in the system, and then this situation can be reversed leaving the legal code dominant again in a matter of minutes.

[uppityperson]

1. k&r against the godamned assholes that steal elections

[pooja]

2. Does this surprise anyone?

[Captain Hilts]

3. To steal an Oldsmobile? K&R. nt

[rosesaylavee]

4. I have a hope that some day,

the engineers of these machines, who knowingly designed voter fraud into these machines will get their comeuppance. I want them in prison for a very long time.

:grr:

[mom cat]

5. How many screwdrivers does it take to steal an election?

Only one, but it has to be held by a Republican.

[gratuitous]

6. "You want to rig an election, anything is possible"

Descert says that like it was a design flaw, not a feature.

[Cobalt-60]

9. Dual Boot? thats no accident

There is no possible reason to have this configuration other than to provide a cheat option.
It's like saying that electromagnet under the roulette wheel is for bulk erasure of VHS tapes.

[Tab]

7. It's ironic

for a lobotomy, all you need is a screwdriver too...

[Vidar]

8. K&R.

[OnionPatch]

10. If they won't fix em in time

I say we put our own screwdrivers to work. Maybe I should be a poll worker and the local voting machines can spend the night in my husband's workshop. Maybe this issue is going nowhere until Republicans start getting their votes ripped-off. :mad:

[deaniac21]

11. OVF has an incredible technical expertise.

[Dob Bole]

12. "...then everyone looks like a screw?"

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

And it isn't too far off the mark in this case...

[Twist_U_Up]

13. Flaws my ass.......They where built this way intensionally

[orleans]

14. randi on air america was talking about this today

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2752310

[slackmaster]

15. I wonder how this "different manner" knows which names on the ballot

Belong to Republican candidates.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

16. Hats off to the FBI for getting...

...and staying on top of this election fraud stuff---crime of the fuckin century (not one but two consecutive stolen presidential elections) and what are the Feds doing? Why they're digging up a horsey farm looking for Jimmy Hoffa's remains, that's what. Nice work detectives, carry on!!!