bugtraq - RE: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes

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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:36:11 -0400
From: "Polazzo Justin" <Justin.Polazzo@...ilities.gatech.edu>
To: "Barry Fitzgerald" <bkfsec@....lonestar.org>,
	<vvaduva@...sco.com>
Cc: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>, <pressinfo@...bold.com>
Subject: RE: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor    Account    Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes


It is impossible for a company to be non-partisan. That is why it would
be nice to develop an open source solution. That would be non-partisan.
Having being created by democrats, republicans, anarchists, whoever
wanted to contribute. 

-JP

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Fitzgerald [mailto:bkfsec@....lonestar.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:19 PM
To: vvaduva@...sco.com
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com; Polazzo Justin; pressinfo@...bold.com
Subject: Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor
Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes

vvaduva@...sco.com wrote:

>
>
>Well now you are getting assinine and political!  If that's the case, 
>why would I trust my democrat baker with making non-poisoned bread for 
>me?  The problem is technical not political!  e-voting is 
>CRAP...insecure, inaccurate.  Stick with what works, i.e. paper 
>ballots.  They are cheap, accountable and hard to fake.
>
>  
>
The problem is both technical and political.  The political impacts the
technical -- the technical aspect doesn't exist in a bubble.

Likewise, I wouldn't trust a voting machine that was created by a
company whose executives promised elections to democrats. 

I wasn't making a point about the party, I was making a point about the
appearance of partisanship.  Voting machine companies should be
inherently non-partisan. 

             -Barry