Well This Is Certainly A Big Surprise…
Via The Association for Computing Machinery tech newsletter …
Voting Glitch Said to Be ‘Disastrous’
Inside Bay Area (CA) (05/10/06) Hoffman, IanA recently discovered vulnerability in Diebold’s touch-screen voting machines has election officials scrambling to understand and contain the risk. A hacker with minimal specialized knowledge of Diebold’s system and an off-the-shelf component could load software onto the machine to disable it or alter vote counts in a matter of minutes. "This one is worse than any of the others I’ve seen. It’s more fundamental," said Douglas Jones, a University of Iowa computer scientist. "In the other ones, we’ve been arguing about the security of the locks on the front door," he said. "Now we find there’s no back door.
No back door eh? Alter the vote count in minutes eh? With off the shelf components eh? I’m just…shocked…shocked I tell you…
Paper. Ballots. Paper. Ballots.
