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Felten and graduate students Ariel Feldman and Alex Halderman found that malicious programs could be placed on the Diebold by accessing the memory card slot and power button, both behind a locked door on the side of the machine. One member of the group was able to pick the lock in 10 seconds, and software could be installed in less than a minute, according to the report.
The researchers say they designed software capable of modifying all records, audit logs and counters kept by the voting machine, ensuring that a careful forensic examination would find nothing wrong.
The programs were able to modify vote totals or cause machines to break down, something that could alter the course of an election if machines were located in crucial polling stations.
It was also possible to design a computer virus to spread malicious programs to multiple machines by piggybacking on a new software download or an election information file being transferred from machine to machine, Felten said.
"I think there are many people out there who have the type of technical ability to carry out the sort of attacks we describe here," he said.
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Remember, hacking will only have occurred if republicans win. That is key here.
I wonder if MTJ will mention in probably the next two weeks from now when the DJIA breaks its all-time high of 11,7 and some change. Doubt it. It ended today at 11,527...and gas prices are still dropping.
Mike
Maybe not, idiot, but it IS their fault the machines are here in the first place.
Anne
ps- "Get a room" was me.
I wonder if the director of Diebold mentioned the campaign contributions in the millions that are given to Bush every year, or the letter Diebold sent to Bush saying that they were "looking forward to delivering the votes " for the Bush election. The point is that it can be done and with ease. And if there is "new" software, I am sure that the members of Diebold will be more than happy to have it tested also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_U.S._presidential_election_controversy%2C_voting_machines
It is highly unlikely that they switch from Windows CE to a newer proprietary OS. And just were are these new Arcade Games made?
Ron Burgandy
From:
http://www.madcowprod.com/mc6912004.html
And while a felony conviction may be enough to prevent you from voting in Florida, convicted felons can take heart in the fact that the “blemish” on their record in no way disqualifies them from owning companies counting the votes.
In fact, the word ‘coverup’ itself was invented to describe the activities of the original owner of Sequoia Pacific, "shadowy financier" Lewis Wolfson, who got caught bribing no less a personage than a Supreme Court Justice of the United States of America.
Thomas Noe was also a professional rare-coin dealer, who lost $10-12 USD million of Ohio state public funds, and $50 ching ching of his own silver, whereabouts cannot be accounted.
That is full-court ball, playa.
Chad
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