The Perfect Gift for the Careful, Discriminating Hacker...

Posted By Brad Friedman On 29th April 2008 @ 12:24 In Diebold/Premier, Election Fraud | 21 Comments

Sure, Diebold voting systems have been easily hacked again ^[1] and again ^[2]. Sure, they use the same hotel mini-bar key ^[3] for all of them. Sure, they posted the key online ^[4] so folks could make their own at home. Sure, they leave their poorly written source code on the Internet ^[5] for folks to download and study it. And, sure, there are many videos (e.g., here ^[6] and here ^[7]) to help you through those final steps, in order to successfully hack them yourself.

Still, there's nothing like hands-on practice, in the privacy of your home, to make sure you get everything just right before the big day comes. So, might we suggest this lovely new Diebold/Premier Accuvote OSx voting system, currently available to the highest bidder at eBay ^[8]?

Hey Election Officials and Voting Machines Companies: How's that whole "security by obscurity" thing going? Might we suggest security by transparency and full citizen oversight instead? Oh, that's right. We have ^[10]. Many times. But please feel free to continue to ignore us.

(Hat-tip to Melissa Urda, of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project ^[11], where, btw, almost the exact same Diebold Accuvote systems are currently used ^[12] in 64 of Illinois' 111 counties, not to mention thousands more around the country ^[13]. So, run don't walk over to eBay, sez us!)

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URLs in this post:
[1] again: http://www.bradblog.comwww.bradblog.com/?p=3467
[2] again: http://hackingdemocracy.com
[3] same hotel mini-bar key: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3489
[4] posted the key online: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066
[5] source code on the Internet: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?articleId=9004339&command=vi
ewArticleBasic&intsrc=it_blogwatch&taxonomyId=13&taxonomyName=government
[6] here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwWP-N1HqT0
[7] here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbuwbkqAe_A
[8] available to the highest bidder at eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Accuvote-OSX-optical-scan-voting-machine-BRAND-NEW_W0QQitemZ
300219838986QQihZ020QQcategoryZ162QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
[9] Image: http://cgi.ebay.com/Accuvote-OSX-optical-scan-voting-machine-BRAND-NEW_W0QQitemZ
300219838986QQihZ020QQcategoryZ162QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
[10] We have: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5920
[11] Illinois Ballot Integrity Project: http://www.ballot-integrity.net/
[12] currently used: http://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/map.php?topic_string=5std&state=illi
nois&year=2008
[13] around the country: http://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/index.php?topic_string=5std&year=200
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