clearing up the genesis of the Diebold memo's...

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:40:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall () SIMS Berkeley EDU>
Subject: clearing up the genesis of the Diebold memo's...
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: Gordon Cook <cook () cookreport com>


Dave,

For the record, the Diebold memos were, in fact, stolen by a hacker
around March of 2003... the downloading of publicly-available code by
Bev Harris was a separate incident. (and was the source of the code
analyzed by Avi Rubin's JHU/Rice team)  -Joe

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0308/S00070.htm

Diebold web sites go down, after 2nd ftp site security is breached

Friday, August 8, 2003
By Bev Harris  blackboxvoting.org

Aug 8, 2003 1:20 a.m. -- Perhaps for a long-overdue security upgrade?
Diebold's main web site and it's voting machine web site have both
been taken down, probably for maintenance. And it's no wonder: Aug 7
Wired News[1] revealed new and embarrassing security problems.

[1] http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59925,00.html

"Following an embarrassing leak of its proprietary software over a
file transfer protocol site last January, the inner workings of
Diebold Election Systems have again been laid bare.

"A hacker has come forward with evidence that he broke the security of
a private Web server operated by the embattled e-vote vendor, and made
off last spring with Diebold's internal discussion-list archives, a
software bug database and more software.

"There is no sane reason to put the corporate jewels on an
Internet-facing server. They were basically asking to be hacked," said
Jeff Stutzman, CEO of ZNQ3, a provider of information security
services. "This is the kind of behavior you expect of a startup
company that's only concerned about selling their first product."



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