Religions > Atheism > Demonstration reveals huge gaping hole in security of Diebold systems
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14 Dec 2005 07:50:08 PM |
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Demonstration reveals huge gaping hole in security of Diebold systems |
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Wed. December 14, 2005: Due to contractual non-performance and
security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections
Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an
election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from
the county. On Tuesday, the most serious “hack” demonstration to date
took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed quickly to
alteration of the votes. This comes on the heels of the resignation of
Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell, and the announcement that a stockholder's
class action suit has been filed against Diebold by Stull, Stull &
Brady and another firm, Scott & Scott. Further “hack” testing on
additional vulnerabilities is tentatively scheduled before Christmas
in the state of California.
Finnish security expert Harri Hursti, together with Black Box Voting,
demonstrated that Diebold made misrepresentations to Secretaries of
State across the nation when Diebold claimed votes could not be
changed on the “memory card” (the credit-card-sized ballot box used by
computerized voting machines.
A test election was run in Leon County on Tuesday with a total of
eight ballots. Six ballots voted "no" on a ballot question as to
whether Diebold voting machines can be hacked or not. Two ballots,
cast by Dr. Herbert Thompson and by Harri Hursti voted "yes"
indicating a belief that the Diebold machines could be hacked.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html
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| Title: Re: Demonstration reveals huge gaping hole in security of Diebold systems |
15 Dec 2005 07:05:41 AM |
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Kate wrote:
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Wed. December 14, 2005: Due to contractual non-performance and
security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections
Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an
election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from
the county. On Tuesday, the most serious "hack" demonstration to date
took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed quickly to
alteration of the votes. This comes on the heels of the resignation of
Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell, and the announcement that a stockholder's
class action suit has been filed against Diebold by Stull, Stull &
Brady and another firm, Scott & Scott. Further "hack" testing on
additional vulnerabilities is tentatively scheduled before Christmas
in the state of California.
Finnish security expert Harri Hursti, together with Black Box Voting,
demonstrated that Diebold made misrepresentations to Secretaries of
State across the nation when Diebold claimed votes could not be
changed on the "memory card" (the credit-card-sized ballot box used by
computerized voting machines.
A test election was run in Leon County on Tuesday with a total of
eight ballots. Six ballots voted "no" on a ballot question as to
whether Diebold voting machines can be hacked or not. Two ballots,
cast by Dr. Herbert Thompson and by Harri Hursti voted "yes"
indicating a belief that the Diebold machines could be hacked.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html
Printed paper. Boxes to mark "X"s. Counted by hand.
You live with the election results for four years. Would you
rather take two weeks to count by hand and get the right result
(which you can double check) or two seconds by computer to get
the wrong result (which you can't)?
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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"Sooner or later the despairing Churches will try to get
a world-alliance with something like Fascist tyranny to
check the growth of Atheism. It is their one hope."
- Joseph McCabe
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Demonstration reveals huge gaping hole in security of Diebold systems |
15 Dec 2005 12:14:16 PM |
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wrote:
Kate wrote:
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Wed. December 14, 2005: Due to contractual non-performance and
security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections
Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an
election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from
the county. On Tuesday, the most serious "hack" demonstration to date
took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed quickly to
alteration of the votes. This comes on the heels of the resignation of
Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell, and the announcement that a stockholder's
class action suit has been filed against Diebold by Stull, Stull &
Brady and another firm, Scott & Scott. Further "hack" testing on
additional vulnerabilities is tentatively scheduled before Christmas
in the state of California.
Finnish security expert Harri Hursti, together with Black Box Voting,
demonstrated that Diebold made misrepresentations to Secretaries of
State across the nation when Diebold claimed votes could not be
changed on the "memory card" (the credit-card-sized ballot box used by
computerized voting machines.
A test election was run in Leon County on Tuesday with a total of
eight ballots. Six ballots voted "no" on a ballot question as to
whether Diebold voting machines can be hacked or not. Two ballots,
cast by Dr. Herbert Thompson and by Harri Hursti voted "yes"
indicating a belief that the Diebold machines could be hacked.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html
Printed paper. Boxes to mark "X"s. Counted by hand.
You live with the election results for four years. Would you
rather take two weeks to count by hand and get the right result
(which you can double check) or two seconds by computer to get
the wrong result (which you can't)?
These were paper ballot machines. If they doubt the outcome, all they
have to do is count those paper ballots.
This is why it is important to stay away from electronic voting
machines.
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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"Sooner or later the despairing Churches will try to get
a world-alliance with something like Fascist tyranny to
check the growth of Atheism. It is their one hope."
- Joseph McCabe
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: Demonstration reveals huge gaping hole in security of Diebold systems |
15 Dec 2005 01:18:31 PM |
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wrote in
news:1134670456.623298.37160@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:
bg12345@apexmail.com wrote:
Kate wrote:
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------------ Wed. December 14, 2005: Due to contractual
non-performance and security design issues, Leon County (Florida)
supervisor of elections Ion Sancho has announced that he will never
again use Diebold in an election. He has requested funds to replace
the Diebold system from the county. On Tuesday, the most serious
"hack" demonstration to date took place in Leon County. The Diebold
machines succumbed quickly to alteration of the votes. This comes
on the heels of the resignation of Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell, and
the announcement that a stockholder's class action suit has been
filed against Diebold by Stull, Stull & Brady and another firm,
Scott & Scott. Further "hack" testing on additional vulnerabilities
is tentatively scheduled before Christmas in the state of
California.
Finnish security expert Harri Hursti, together with Black Box
Voting, demonstrated that Diebold made misrepresentations to
Secretaries of State across the nation when Diebold claimed votes
could not be changed on the "memory card" (the credit-card-sized
ballot box used by computerized voting machines.
A test election was run in Leon County on Tuesday with a total of
eight ballots. Six ballots voted "no" on a ballot question as to
whether Diebold voting machines can be hacked or not. Two ballots,
cast by Dr. Herbert Thompson and by Harri Hursti voted "yes"
indicating a belief that the Diebold machines could be hacked.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?
file=/1954/15
595.html
Printed paper. Boxes to mark "X"s. Counted by hand.
You live with the election results for four years. Would you
rather take two weeks to count by hand and get the right result
(which you can double check) or two seconds by computer to get
the wrong result (which you can't)?
These were paper ballot machines. If they doubt the outcome, all they
have to do is count those paper ballots.
This is why it is important to stay away from electronic voting
machines.
I noticed from the original article that the "hacker" was given access
to the vote-counting machine "the same as if he were an election
commission worker". If the actual physical security for the vote-
counting machines is as lame as that there's no reason why plain paper
ballot boxes couldn't be stuffed too.
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Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"I either want less corruption, or more chances to participate."
- Ashleigh Brilliant -
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| User: "stoney" |
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16 Dec 2005 06:54:26 AM |
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On 14 Dec 2005 19:50:08 -0600, (Kate ) wrote:
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Wed. December 14, 2005: Due to contractual non-performance and
security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections
Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an
election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from
the county. On Tuesday, the most serious “hack” demonstration to date
took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed quickly to
alteration of the votes. This comes on the heels of the resignation of
Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell, and the announcement that a stockholder's
class action suit has been filed against Diebold by Stull, Stull &
Brady and another firm, Scott & Scott. Further “hack” testing on
additional vulnerabilities is tentatively scheduled before Christmas
in the state of California.
Finnish security expert Harri Hursti, together with Black Box Voting,
demonstrated that Diebold made misrepresentations to Secretaries of
State across the nation when Diebold claimed votes could not be
changed on the “memory card” (the credit-card-sized ballot box used by
computerized voting machines.
A test election was run in Leon County on Tuesday with a total of
eight ballots. Six ballots voted "no" on a ballot question as to
whether Diebold voting machines can be hacked or not. Two ballots,
cast by Dr. Herbert Thompson and by Harri Hursti voted "yes"
indicating a belief that the Diebold machines could be hacked.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html
Wed. December 14, 2005: Due to contractual non-performance and
security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections
Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an
election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from
the county. On Tuesday, the most serious “hack” demonstration to date
took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed quickly to
alteration of the votes. This comes on the heels of the resignation of
Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell, and the announcement that a stockholder's
class action suit has been filed against Diebold by Stull, Stull &
Brady and another firm, Scott & Scott. Further “hack” testing on
additional vulnerabilities is tentatively scheduled before Christmas
in the state of California.
Finnish security expert Harri Hursti, together with Black Box Voting,
demonstrated that Diebold made misrepresentations to Secretaries of
State across the nation when Diebold claimed votes could not be
changed on the “memory card” (the credit-card-sized ballot box used by
computerized voting machines.
A test election was run in Leon County on Tuesday with a total of
eight ballots. Six ballots voted "no" on a ballot question as to
whether Diebold voting machines can be hacked or not. Two ballots,
cast by Dr. Herbert Thompson and by Harri Hursti voted "yes"
indicating a belief that the Diebold machines could be hacked.
At the beginning of the test election the memory card programmed by
Harri Hursti was inserted into an Optical Scan Diebold voting machine.
A "zero report" was run indicating zero votes on the memory card. In
fact, however, Hursti had pre-loaded the memory card with plus and
minus votes.
The eight ballots were run through the optical scan machine. The
standard Diebold-supplied "ender card" was run through as is normal
procedure ending the election. A results tape was run from the voting
machine.
Correct results should have been: Yes:2 ; No:6
However, just as Hursti had planned, the results tape read: Yes:7 ;
No:1
The results were then uploaded from the optical scan voting machine
into the GEMS central tabulator, a step cited by Diebold as a
protection against memory card hacking. The central tabulator is the
"mother ship" that pulls in all votes from voting machines. However,
the GEMS central tabulator failed to notice that the voting machines
had been hacked.
The results in the central tabulator read:
Yes:7 ; No:1
This videotaped testing session was witnessed by Black Box Voting
investigators Bev Harris and Kathleen Wynne, Florida Fair Elections
Coalition Director Susan Pynchon, security expert Dr. Herbert
Thompson, and Susan Bernecker, a former candidate for New Orleans city
council who videotaped Sequoia-brand touch-screen voting machines in
her district recording vote after vote for the wrong candidate.
The Hursti Hack requires a moderate level of inside access. It is,
however, accomplished without being given any password and with the
same level of access given thousands of poll workers across the USA.
It is a particularly dangerous exploit, because it changes votes in a
one-step process that will not be detected in any normal canvassing
procedure, it requires only a single a credit-card sized memory card,
any single individual with access to the memory cards can do it, and
it requires only a small piece of equipment which can be purchased off
the Internet for a few hundred dollars.
One thousand two hundred locations in the U.S. and Canada use Diebold
voting machines. In each of these locations, typically three people
have a high level of inside access. Temporary employees also often
have brief access to loose memory cards as machines are being prepared
for elections. Poll workers sometimes have a very high level of inside
access. National elections utilize up to two million poll workers,
with hundreds or thousands in a single jurisdiction.
Many locations in the U.S. ask poll workers to take voting machines
home with them with the memory cards inside. San Diego County (Calif)
sent 713 voting machines/memory cards home with poll workers for its
July 26 election, and King County (Wash.) sent over 500 voting
machines home with poll workers before its Nov. 8 election.
Memory cards are held in a compartment protected by a small plastic
seal. However, these simple seals can be defeated, and Hursti has
found evidence that the memory card can be reprogrammed without
disturbing the seal by using a telephone modem port on the back of the
machine.
The Hursti Hack, referred to as “the mother of all security holes” was
first exposed in a formal report on July 4.
(http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVreport.pdf).
Diebold has insisted to county and state election officials that
despite Hursti’s demonstration, changing votes on its memory cards is
impossible. (Public records from Diebold, including threat letter to
Ion Sancho:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/10535.html)
On Oct. 17, 2005 Diebold Elections Systems Research and Development
chief Pat Green specifically told the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) board of
elections during a $21 million purchasing session that votes cannot be
changed using only a memory card. (Video of Pat Green:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/14298.html) Over the
objections of Cuyahoga County citizens, and relying on the veracity of
Diebold’s statements, the board has chosen to purchase the machines.
According to Public Records obtained by Black Box Voting, Diebold has
promulgated misrepresentations about both the Hursti Hack and another
kind of hack by Dr. Herbert Thompson to secretaries of state, and to
as many as 800 state and local elections officials.
Stockholder suit filed by the law offices of Stull, Stull & Brady and
also by Scott and Scott.
Stull Stull & Brady lawsuit:
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/8/15603.html
and http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002153.htm
Diebold CEO resigns:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175001748
Permission to reprint granted with link to http://blackboxvoting.org
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Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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