Tuesday, November 16, 2004

How hard is it to steal an election? 

Suppose all the voting machines are secure and work perfectly. Have you ever wondered who adds up the counts from each machine?

One of my security colleagues downloaded Diebold's vote counting software and ran an imaginary election on his home machine. Check out his report on the security of Diebold vote counting software.

Sample quote: "There were no passwords to crack, and all I had to do was figure out the way things were stored in an unprotected, clear text Access database".

Folks, this is not a partisan issue. If your candidate won, don't you want him or her to have the moral authority that comes from a clean election? Don't you want to be sure the other side can't steal the next election?

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