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more on Diebold Source Code!!!
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:55:39 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: "K.E." <guavaberry () earthlink net> Date: November 10, 2004 10:40:35 PM EST To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Diebold Source Code!!! "Our analysis shows that this voting system is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts." http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf karen ellis
From: Jay Fenello <Jay () Fenello com> Date: November 10, 2004 6:58:20 PM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d () adelphia net> Subject: Diebold Source Code!!! FYI: At 11/10/2004 06:40 PM, CLG News wrote: News Update from Citizens for Legitimate Government November 10, 2004 http://www.legitgov.org/ http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_newsDiebold Source Code!!! --by ouranos (dailykos.com) "Dr. Avi Rubin is currently Professor of Computer Science at John Hopkins University. He 'accidentally' got his hands on a copy of the Diebold software program--Diebold's source code--which runs their e-voting machines. Dr. Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up this software. One line in particular stood out over all the rest: #defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4" All commercial programs have provisions to be encrypted so as to protect them from having their contents read or changed by anyone not having the key... The line that staggered the Hopkins team was that the method used to encrypt the Diebold machines was a method called Digital Encryption Standard (DES), a code that was broken in 1997 and is NO LONGER USED by anyone to secure programs. F2654hd4 was the key to the encryption. Moreover, because the KEY was IN the source code, all Diebold machines would respond to the same key. Unlock one, you have then ALL unlocked. I can't believe there is a person alive who wouldn't understand the reason this was allowed to happen. This wasn't a mistake by any stretch of the imagination."***** +++ Jay Fenello, 678-585-9765 http://www.Fenello.com ... Startup Coaching http://www.YourWebPartner.com ... Website Partnering http://www.AligningWithPurpose.org ... For a Better World ------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is a bigger question than vote fraud, or the manipulation of public opinion by unscrupulous media corporations, or the fact that the two political parties are actually one, and that the loyal opposition seeks only to emulate the party in power rather than oppose it ... The biggest question of all is about the caliber — and the sanity — of the American people." -- John Kaminski ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as guavaberry () earthlink net To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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