Diebold Voting Machines Vulnerable to Virus Attack 122
mcgrew writes "PC world is reporting that Diebold's super-popular voting machines are coming under even more scrutiny. A security review has revealed that they are simply 'not secure enough to guarantee a trustworthy election.' This is according to a report from the University of California Berkley, who did a two-month top-to-bottom review of all California e-voting systems. That's a subject we've discussed before, but Diebold's setup is truly unsettling. An attacker with access to a single machine could disrupt or change the outcome of an entire election using viruses. From the article: 'The report warned that a paper trail of votes cast is not sufficient to guarantee the integrity of an election using the machines. "Malicious code might be able to subtly influence close elections, and it could disrupt elections by causing widespread equipment failure on election day," it said. The source-code review went on to warn that commercial antivirus scanners do not offer adequate protection for the voting machines. "They are not designed to detect virally propagating malicious code that targets voting equipment and voting software," it said.' Oddly, my state of Illinois, long known for election fraud, has paper trails (at least in my county) and according to Black Box Voting doesn't use Diebold anywhere."
Even worse (Score:5, Informative)
Re:waht we've all been wondering... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:waht we've all been wondering... (Score:2, Informative)
DUPLICATE (Score:2, Informative)
Please post a story about the Secretary of State's decision [ca.gov] restricting the use of these machines.
Three systems were reviewed. (Score:3, Informative)
Dubya's little brother made sure FL has diebold. (Score:2, Informative)
in 2000, Volusia County, FL had one precinct count up (er down) -16,000 votes for Al Gore. That's Negative Sixteen Thousand.
It was allowed to pass in the final tally.
information from the blackbox voting documentary.
Re:waht we've all been wondering... (Score:3, Informative)
I'd respond by pointing out that we don't yet have electronic voting in Australia. We use pencil and paper, and the results of an election are normally available several hours after the close of voting.
At this year's federal election there will be a trial of e-voting for vision-impaired voters and overseas defence force personnel - for and overview see the Australian Electoral Commission [aec.gov.au] site.