Diebold: The Gang That Couldn't Do Anything Straight

[TehBorken]

Christ, what a bunch of idiots. Who's running Diebold, Larry, Moe, and Curly??[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Yet again, Diebold has shown their [a href="vny!://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066#more-4066"]security prowess[/a]. This time they posted, on their website, a picture of the actual key used to open all of their Diebold voting machines. (That's right- one key opens ALL the voting machines!)

Ross Kinard of Sploitcast crafted three keys based on nothing more than the photo. Amazingly enough, two of the three keys [a  href="vny!://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfGvSJA20-Y&eurl="]successfully opened[/a] one of the voting machines.  

But fear not, Diebold has [a href="vny!://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6153328.html"]removed the offending picture[/a], replacing it with a picture of their digital card key.  Take that, hackers!  

[Russ]

LOL! Thats hilarious!!

[Lise]

Uhm. Could someone enlightened me on what this is all about?

[TehBorken]

 Lise wrote:
Uhm. Could someone enlightened me on what this is all about?
Diebold makes the voting machines that are widely used in the US. Their security has been blown a hundred times, they're super easy to spoof, fool, and outright cheat, so you can make the vote come out any way you want (like in 2000 and 2004).

Diebold cleverly made it so one key fits ALL the machines (very poor security design) and then they posted a picture of the actual key on their website. Some guy took the photo off their website and made a working key from the photo (!!!), proving that once again that these machines cannot be trusted for voting.
 

[Russ]

The best part about these machines lise is that they are made by a canuck company in ditchmond or burnaby. cant remember which.

[Lise]

ROTFL. Oh my. That's..... kinda scary. Will this device be used in the upcoming elections in the states?

[Sportsdude]

Yup every state is going electronic I voted electronicly last time it was easy peasy but I think these are different kind of machines then the ones I used.  Your vote was printed an a reciept and I saw who I voted for and such but the dumb things did break down a lot.  

[49er]

my district when back to paper ballots in the last election after the shit hit the fan regading these machines

[Sportsdude]

well here's the deal they said they were going electric yet they only had 4 electric machines and then they had 7 punch ballots. lol they couldn't make up there mind.