Diebold thrown out of Florida by hacker

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Ken Deifik <kenneth.d () adelphia net>
Date: December 20, 2005 11:10:50 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Diebold thrown out of Florida by hacker

Diebold thrown out of Florida by hacker
Finnished in Florida
By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 20 December 2005, 06:01
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28450

A FINNISH security expert has proved to the supervisor of elections  
in Leon County Florida that it is a doddle to hack Diebold voting  
machines.

Harri Hursti took part in a fake election in Leon County using what  
Diebold calls unhackable technology.

At the beginning of the test election the memory card programmed by  
Harri Hursti was inserted into an Optical Scan Diebold voting  
machine. Hursti had pre-loaded the memory card with plus and minus  
votes.

The eight ballots were run through the optical scan machine. Correct  
results should have been: Yes:2 ; No:6 However, just as Hursti had  
planned, the results tape read: Yes:7 ; No:1

To be fair to Diebold, the Hursti Hack requires a moderate level of  
inside access, however it does not require a password and it is the  
same level of access given thousands of poll workers across the USA.


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