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Open-source voting: Secure over obscure?

Not that difficultI could have programmed a voting machine on a Commodore 64 in 1984 when I was twelve that is more reliable than Diebold... WITH A PAPER TRAIL. What's the problem?

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Diebold ATMs infected with credit card skimming malware

Diebold ATMs infected with credit card skimming malwarethtas why i only use bank atms with my card and CC for everything elseThough cash is preferred.if they want a credit based world, they are going to have to protect it better.More reasons why Windows has no place periodAnother reason why Windows...

Tags: Network technology, Operating systems, NETWORKING, malware, Diebold Inc., credit card, ATM, Microsoft Windows, operating system

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Diebold ATMs infected with credit card skimming malware

Theory comes into practice. Yesterday, Sophos Principal Virus Research Vanja Svacjer posted an analysis of Troj/Skimer-A, a malware affecting Windows-based Diebold cash machines and capable of intercepting credit card details and their associated PINs. The malware is exclusively coded to target Russian, Ukranian and American currency transactions,...

Tags: Credit Card, Diebold Inc., Malware, ATM, Network Technology, Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-03-18

United Tech makes bid for ATM maker Diebold

United Tech makes bid for ATM maker Dieboldthey make voting machines still?Does that mean they will buy this year's election too? jk.Let's hope United Tech is less corruptI bet the "additional value" they found was in the form of bribes given to Diebold by the Republicans (in the form of...

Tags: United, Diebold Inc., ATM company, ATM

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

Best Buy gets framed

Best Buy gets framedI wonder how many people will hate Best BuyAfter Sony BMG's rootkit fiasco quite a few online personalities decided to hate Sony so much they dedicate quite a lot of time evangelizing their cause. Of course it wasn't necessarily Sony BMG's intent to use a rootkit, it...

Tags: Rootkits, Branding, Best Buy Co. Inc., Diebold Inc., Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

A looming election nightmare?

After the recount debacle of 2000, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act HAVA. As a result, most states went out and replaced their punch card ballots with electronic voting machines. Unfortunately, evidence is mounting that this will have the opposite effect than the one Congress intended. ...

Tags: Problem, Diebold Inc., Ballot, E-voting, Corporate Governance, Printers, Government, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Peripherals, Phil Windley

Blog posts 2007-11-30

Diebold wants out of elections, but buyers are scarce

Diebold wants out of elections, but buyers are scarceDont trust paper ballots eitherWhat proof do you have that your paper ballot gets counted? Before Al Gore's election challenge we never counted dangling chads or anything else the counting machines rejected.Not that it matters much as ALL the candidates the...

Tags: ballot, felon, Diebold Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-16

Diebold wants out of elections, but buyers are scarce

Now that everyone realizes what a very bad idea electronic voting machines are, Diebold would like nothing more than to get out of the business. Alas, reports InfoWorld, it has been unable to sell Diebold Election Systems. Oh, and revenue projections for the company? Slashed.DES has a new name, Premier...

Tags: Diebold Inc., E-voting, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-16

Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine

This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. They obtained the machine from a private party. Analysis of the machine, in light of real election procedures, shows that it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks. For example, an attacker...

Tags: Malicious Code, Diebold Inc., Machine, Security, Viruses And Worms

White papers 2007-08-01

Diebold considering dumping eVoting unit

This report on Ars Technica concludes that Diebold is considering dumping its eVoting unit because of the negative publicity that the company has suffered from all the controversy surround its eVoting appliances. If it were just the companys poorly designed systems, that would be bad enough, but...

Tags: Security, Government, General

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Photos: E-voting in the midterm elections

Voting machines from Diebold and others are on duty at polling places across the country.

Tags: Diebold Inc., e-voting

Image galleries 2006-11-07

Would open source make elections fair?

Would open source make elections fair?Unintentional duplication, I presume.There's a paragraph that appears to be making its point by repetition.You DON'T want receiptsVoting receipts is an idiotic idea and it only invites more corruption.Our votes are supposed to be [b]secret[/b] for a reason - so that votes cannot be bought...

Tags: Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, Network security, SECURITY, PKI, ballot, open source, Diebold Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-06

Election blues: The many ways for things to awry on Nov. 7

The Wall Street Journal takes a look at some of the possible problems that may crop up with e-voting machines on November 7 registration required Among the major issues: New equipment, elderly poll workers: Many machines bought under Helping America Vote were only bought this year, which means...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, voter, poll-worker, Brennan Center, touch screen, Diebold Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-27

Diebold withheld proof of motherboard flaws from MD officials

Diebold Election Systems lied to the state of Maryland in 2004, quietly replacing bad motherboards while telling election officials they were merely installing ""technical refreshers," The Baltimore Sun reports. According to Gilles Burger, chairman of the State Board of Elections, Diebold discovered the problem - which caused the machines...

Tags: motherboard, Diebold Inc., Linda H. Lamone

Blog posts 2006-10-26

Despite theft, Diebold assures Marylanders it's safe to vote

Even as a stolen copy of the Diebold code used in the 2004 Maryland election was mailed to a critic of e-voting systems, the company and voting officials are assuring voters that the current system is safe and tamperproof, the ">Baltimore Sun reports."The availability of this software poses no threat...

Tags: Diebold Inc., disk, Delegate Cheryl Kagan

Blog posts 2006-10-23

Diebold code used in 04 stolen, sent to e-voting critic

An anonymous person sent to a former state legislator computer disks containing the Diebold computer code that ran Marylands election in 2004, the legislator reported. Diebold reacted with alarm and said it was treating the mailing as a theft. According to the Baltimore Sun: Cheryl C. Kagan, a longtime...

Tags: Diebold Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-20

MD OKs Diebold machines for election

Maryland election officials have given the green light to the troubled Diebold electronic voting machines that set the state back $18 million. With that much money at risk, few were surprised to see the machines approved, despite the sound and fury state officials have engaged in since the primary election....

Tags: Diebold Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-09

Outlook unclear for Diebold machines in MD election

Outlook unclear for Diebold machines in MD electionPrinceton videoOf course you have seen by now:http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/videos.htmlIt kind of speaks for itself.ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINESThe following is from OpEd News voting integrity editor Joan Brunwasser's review of Steve Freeman's book: Was the 2004 Election Stolen?"The Association of Computing Machinery ACM has 75,000 members....

Tags: Outlook Unclear, Diebold Machines, Diebold Inc., Microsoft Outlook

Discussion threads 2006-10-04

Outlook unclear for Diebold machines in MD election

Maryland held a mock trial of its Diebold voting machines yesterday, to see whether the companys fixes had solved the rather severe problems the machines suffered in the states primary election. The Baltimore Sun reports: The machines experienced 10 problems yesterday, including someone accidentally kicking out a...

Tags: Diebold Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-04

Diebold promises total fix in MD just weeks before election

Diebold promises total fix in MD just weeks before electionWorst fears.It is five weeks before the election. The power is in the hands of the companies with proprietary software. There is no way of rechecking the votes. Why not simply let Diebold and the rest appoint our...

Tags: Diebold Inc., voter

Discussion threads 2006-10-02