[ale] OT: Voting machines cracked in California

[Charles Shapiro]

And this is just the tip of the iceberg. As Ed Felten (famous computer
scientist and DRM fighter ) points out in his blog
( http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ ), this report is the product of only
one of several different task groups investigating
voting machines in California.  The guys who wrote this report had a bunch
of advantages -- among them were access to the source code and unlimited
time to investigate the physical machines.  I'm not tryin' to discount the
severity of the flaws they found, which were pretty way badd.  But there are
two other reports from two other teams which have yet to be published.
Felten suspects that these reports are even more damning.

-- CHS


On 8/1/07, Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
>
> URL:
>
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/28/MNGP6R8TJO1.DTL
>
> This story starts...
>
> State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through
> the security of virtually every model of California's voting machines
> and change results or take control of some of the systems' electronic
> functions, according to a University of California study released Friday.
>
> This completely undermines our right to vote (and the implied right
> to have our vote counted).
>
> While the article claims that an [ordinary] thief would not have access
> to the machines' manuals, etc. "[because they are secret]".  That argument
> is nonsense.  Given the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars spent
> on National elections, bribing someone is trivial.
>
> Voter-verified paper audits are the only way to go.
>
> My $.02.
>
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