Thursday, September 14, 2006

It doesn't matter who votes, it's who counts the votes (Part XXLMCXXX):

posted by The Vidiot @ 11:20 PM Permalink

Princeton prof hacks e-vote machine
Students uploaded viruses able to spread to other machines

In a paper posted on the university's Web site, Edward Felten and two graduate students described how they had tested a Diebold AccuVote-TS machine they obtained, found ways to quickly upload malicious programs and even developed a computer virus able to spread such programs between machines.
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The marketing director for the machine's maker [said] "I'm concerned by the fact we weren't contacted to educate these people on where our current technology stands," Mark Radke said.
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The AccuVote-TS is commonly used across the country
[Obligatory superfluous snarky comment goes here.]

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