Diebold Voting Machines Hackable
From Martin McKeay’s Network Security Blog: Do you still trust electronic voting machines. Martin points to a recent entry at Brad Blog which is just frightening.
Now we get an insider’s view of the Diebold machines, and it’s not encouraging. An undocumented backdoor exists in the program that allows the modification of voting results, and it doesn’t appear to be a way to detect the modification. Why wasn’t this enough, by itself, to cause the electronic voting machines to be pulled?
It should be enough. If, as Brad Blog suggests, this backdoor was known, then Diebold will lose a lot of credibility. Looking at Brad Blog, I don’t agree with a lot of his politics, but that’s irrelevant when we’re talking about the security of our vote being controlled/manipulated by parties unknown.
Paranoid? Maybe. However, unlike Florida, there’s no paper trail, no hanging chad - just bits and bytes of data begging to be manipulated. Do you really want to trust Diebold and the federal government to somehow “fix this”?
A paper trail is a must in an election.
