{Crap: this is a dup. I didn't see the other before. I looked too I really did.}
This is an excellent article from the Washington Post on the whole mess. Now if the television news would just start reporting the problem. Diebold is spinning and spinning and needs to have its feet held to the fire. Here's an excerpt that I thought would be of interest to fellow DUers who've been following this:
"Whoever certified that code as secure should be fired," said Avi Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins and co-author of the report.
Rubin analyzed portions of Diebold software source code that was mistakenly left on a public Internet site and concluded that a teenager could manufacture "smart" cards and vote several times. Further, he said, insiders could program the machine to alter election results without detection. All machines had the same password hard-wired into the code. And in some instances, it was set at 1111, a number laughably easy to hack, Rubin said.
Because there is no paper or electronic auditing system in the machine, there would be no way to reconstruct an actual vote, he said.
In a 27-page rebuttal, Diebold dismissed the findings. Officials said that the software Rubin analyzed was old and that only a portion may have been used in an actual election. "Right now, we're very, very confident about the security of our system," said Mark Radke, a Diebold executive. "If there is a way to make it more secure, we're open to that from good, reliable, knowledgeable sources who don't have a previous agenda."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42085-2003Aug10.html
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