[privacy] Ed Felten Raises Alarm Over Electronic Voting, Hacks Test Machine

[Dude VanWinkle]

On 9/13/06, Fergie <fergdawg at netzero.net> wrote:
> Go, Ed!
>
> Via USA Today (AP).
>
> [snip]
>
> A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel
> Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of
> the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or
> disable machines.
>
> In a paper posted on the university's website, Edward Felten and two
> graduate students described how they had tested a Diebold AccuVote-TS
> machine they obtained, found ways to quickly upload malicious programs
> and even developed a computer virus able to spread such programs
> between machines.
>
> The marketing director for the machine's maker — Diebold Inc.'s Diebold
> Election Systems of Allen, Texas — blasted the report, saying Felten
> ignored newer software and security measures that prevent such hacking.

Has it been two years already? man how time flies
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2004/Sep/0274.html

-JP