BradBlog Cites Bill Bored: DIEBOLD KNEW IN EARLY 2004

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DIEBOLD KNEW IN EARLY 2004! DID NOTHING TO FIX TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY CHASM!

Two-Year Old Public Report Reveals Diebold Was Warned of 'Newly Discovered' Vulnerability Allowing Software to be Overwritten Without Password in Matter of Minutes

Experts Suggest Decertification of System, Violations of Federal Standards, Describe Diebold's Failure to Act as 'Criminal'

by Brad

5/16/2006

The massive security flaw recently revealed in Diebold touch-screen voting machines -- which allows election software and systems to be overwritten with rogue software in minutes, without need of a password -- and which has sent Elections Officials from Pennsylvania to California to Iowa to every state in the union which uses them, sequestering the machines and scrambling for a solution to mitigate the problem, was previously revealed in a 2004 security report commissioned by the state of Maryland, The BRAD BLOG has learned.

The security assessment of Diebold's touch-screen voting systems was completed by RABA Technologies, and presented to the Maryland State Legislature in January 2004. The report, reviewed at the time by both Maryland election officials and officials at Diebold, consisted of "a 'Red Team' exercise to discover vulnerabilities in the actual voting system" prior to the state's March 2004 primary election.

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The paragraph from the RABA report was apparently first uncovered recently by a poster at DemocraticUnderground.com.

David Allen, an Election Integrity Advocate from BlackBoxVoting.com (as distinct from BlackBoxVoting.ORG) contacted Jones after reading the DU post, to confirm whether or not the security issue cited in the RABA report seemed to be similar to the information revealed in the new report by Hursti based on the Utah analysis of Diebold machines.

"This is exactly the same problem!" Jones wrote in reply. "Thanks! I've been wondering whether this vulnerability was hiding in one of those old security evaluations."

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http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002835.htm

Let's hear it for Bill!

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