Diebold is really, really, extra broken.
As a followup to Thursday's post about the Princeton Diebold hack demonstration, today we learn that it's worse than that.
As if Princeton's demo wasn't bad enough, now we learn that the locks which safeguard the memory card inside a Diebold voting machine use keys which you can get darn near anywhere, including your local hotel mini-bar.
Freedom to Tinker has the story, with details about the many many places you can find these keys.
So basically, the locks which the Princeton guys say they can consistently pick in about 10 seconds, don't really even need to be picked by someone wanting to subvert an election. Odds are you'll have an easier time finding one of these keys--and with fewer raised eyebrows--than finding a set of lockpicks.
The intrepid election hacker is now nearly all set: just gin up some sort of fake ID with your state's official seal on it, dress in a suit, and show up bright and early at the polling station. Armed with your official looking key, who's going question you when you brazenly install your "last minute bug-fix for the machines". "Fix," of course, being the operative word.
Now then, I ask you again: have you registered to vote absentee yet?
As if Princeton's demo wasn't bad enough, now we learn that the locks which safeguard the memory card inside a Diebold voting machine use keys which you can get darn near anywhere, including your local hotel mini-bar.
Freedom to Tinker has the story, with details about the many many places you can find these keys.
So basically, the locks which the Princeton guys say they can consistently pick in about 10 seconds, don't really even need to be picked by someone wanting to subvert an election. Odds are you'll have an easier time finding one of these keys--and with fewer raised eyebrows--than finding a set of lockpicks.
The intrepid election hacker is now nearly all set: just gin up some sort of fake ID with your state's official seal on it, dress in a suit, and show up bright and early at the polling station. Armed with your official looking key, who's going question you when you brazenly install your "last minute bug-fix for the machines". "Fix," of course, being the operative word.
Now then, I ask you again: have you registered to vote absentee yet?
