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Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes
From: Casper Dik <casper () holland sun com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:39:10 +0200
On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 13:16, Nicholas Knight wrote:Unrealistic? It is a *voting system*! It does exactly *one* *very* *simple* thing! If it cannot do it bug-free, its developers are incompetent and should not be allowed anywhere near a compiler, much less the key to democracy.Thank you. This is the most rational post I've seen. if(VoteForBush) { bush++; } elseif(VoteForKerry) { kerry++; } elseif(VoteForNader) { nader++; } Is not tough. Diebold's refusal to allow the world to see that is highly suspicious. I suppose I'll get sued under the DMCA for posting their intellectual property now... Or maybe I have to change line 2 to: elseif(VoteForKerry) { bush++; } first... There, let the lawsuits rain
You are underestimating the compexity of the system. Surely a touch screen is involved or some other device and an operating systems. Surely it's just a minor matter of programming of either the touchscreen window system OS to recognize a voting screen and redirect the input events to different buttons. A touch screen can do this by sending wrong coordinates and then fake output. A window system can do this by sending the even to the wrong button and doing some I/O substitution. All a minor matter of programming. And as other have said; as an ordinary voter you have to trust people who verified the voting system unless you get a paper copy of your ballot which you can put in the backup bin. Casper
Current thread:
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor, (continued)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Adam Shostack (Sep 29)
- RE: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Greg A. Woods (Sep 27)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Marco S Hyman (Sep 28)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Simon (Sep 28)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Colm Buckley (Sep 29)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes David F. Skoll (Sep 29)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes float (Sep 30)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes David F. Skoll (Sep 30)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Marco S Hyman (Sep 28)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Nicholas Knight (Sep 27)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Matthew Keller (Sep 29)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Casper Dik (Sep 29)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Colm MacCarthaigh (Sep 29)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Matthew Keller (Sep 29)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Bob Toxen (Sep 28)
- Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Kurt Seifried (Sep 28)
- RE: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes Reed, Phillip C. (LNG-DAY) (Sep 30)