[IP] Diebold thrown out of Florida by hacker
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From: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 20, 2005 11:10:50 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Diebold thrown out of Florida by hacker
Diebold thrown out of Florida by hacker
Finnished in Florida
By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 20 December 2005, 06:01
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28450
A FINNISH security expert has proved to the supervisor of elections
in Leon County Florida that it is a doddle to hack Diebold voting
machines.
Harri Hursti took part in a fake election in Leon County using what
Diebold calls unhackable technology.
At the beginning of the test election the memory card programmed by
Harri Hursti was inserted into an Optical Scan Diebold voting
machine. Hursti had pre-loaded the memory card with plus and minus
votes.
The eight ballots were run through the optical scan machine. Correct
results should have been: Yes:2 ; No:6 However, just as Hursti had
planned, the results tape read: Yes:7 ; No:1
To be fair to Diebold, the Hursti Hack requires a moderate level of
inside access, however it does not require a password and it is the
same level of access given thousands of poll workers across the USA.
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