Information Security News mailing list archives
Re: Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:21:27 -0600 (CST)
Forwarded from: Dave Dittrich <dittrich (at) u.washington.edu> InfoSec News wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/15/us/15ohio.html By Bob Driehaus The New York Times December 15, 2007 CINCINNATI - All five voting systems used in Ohio ...have critical flaws...
At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines. At boards of election, they were able to introduce malignant software into servers. Ms. Brunner proposed replacing all of the states voting machines, including the touch-screen ones used in more than 50 of Ohios 88 counties.
So when will we see a call for a refund on the millions of dollars spent on those highly flawed systems after the 2000 election? Or at minimum a legislatively mandated discount that will cap the profits on the next generation? When there is a shortage of funds available for computer security R&D, its a shame to see orders of magnitude more money spent on systems that would have benefited from the R&D had that been done first, not after the problems are discovered. Do we always have to do things backwards? Sigh... -- Dave Dittrich Information Assurance Researcher, dittrich (at) u.washington.edu The iSchool http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich University of Washington PGP key http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint FE97 0C57 0843 F3EB 49A1 0CD0 8E0C D0BE C838 CCB5 __________________________________________________________________ Visit InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/
Current thread:
- Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed InfoSec News (Dec 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed InfoSec News (Dec 19)