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Archives => 2007 => Topic started by: Xairbusdriver on January 27, 2007, 03:16:45 PM

Title: OT: But software related
Post by: Xairbusdriver on January 27, 2007, 03:16:45 PM

As many of you know many localities are switching to electronic voting machines produced by Diebold. Got a forwarded message fro RHP today and followed a few of the links to one that worked fine on my machine. It's supposedly a demonstration of a Diebold TS voting machine, obviously running some form of windows, at least it appears to have many of the security flaw built into some Windows OSs.

I found that our county elections board is using a slightly different ( and possibly newer ) Diebold system ( TSX, hopefully never to be confuse with our great forum! ) but asked if they could, in any way, guarantee that 'our' machines are more secure than those demonstrated in this link: <Princenton Diebold TS Security problems.>

Note that there are several assumptions made in the Princeton 'study'; a person or persons have at least some private access to the machines andthe machines don't seem to be turned off after being corrupted. There may be more that I missed.