Following the claims that there’s no real problems with e-voting machines, almost immediately followed by reports of massive fraud with e-voting machines in Brazil, Alex Halderman is pointing out that Diebold, in their infinite wisdom, are making it ridiculously easy to break into their machines. Halderman was a part of the team that showed that Diebold’s locks on their e-voting machines used a default key that was common to many hotel minibars and could be found easily in many places.
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The company, that has continually played down reports of security flaws is apparently selling the very key you need to break into their boxes on their online site… with a picture of the key. [Techdirt]
The result:
Someone told Diebold he knew now how to do it. No response.
Then he wrote a post about it and a video.
Meanwhile wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet still has updates regarding Dutch Voting machine problems.
Related topic: Voting corruption, the real thing
