full-disclosure - OT: Amazing, the Diebold insider said.

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Date: Wed Dec 14 05:18:23 2005
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: OT: Amazing, the Diebold insider said.

Since we're playing dueling urls, perhaps this one should be included:

<http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/dieboldftp.html>

It's a comprehensive look at the controversy as well as the problems with 
Diebold voting machines, including the fact that they use Windows CE as 
their OS and Access as their database (that's minus 100 points right 
there), but also pointing out that many of the problems are related to 
chain of custody and physical access issues which have existed for as long 
as there have been elections and have nothing to do with what method is 
used for voting.

If an election worker throws a bag of votes in his trunk and goes home for 
the night (as happened in Florida in 2000), then you've lost chain of 
custody, and all the "perfect software" in the world isn't going to help.

There's a great deal more than just the machines being used that needs to 
be fixed.

--On December 14, 2005 4:08:05 PM +1100 "Ivan ." <ivanhec@...il.com> wrote:

>  Diebold CEO Resigns Under Cloud
> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/12/13/2053219.shtml?tid=158&tid=187&tid=219
>
> On 12/14/05, Paul Schmehl <pauls@...allas.edu> wrote:
>> --On December 14, 2005 3:59:23 AM +0200 Jei <jei@...hut.fi> wrote:
>> >
>> > Harris revealed that a program patch titled rob-georgia.zip was left on
>>
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> My bs detector just went off.
>>
>> Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
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>> University of Texas at Dallas
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Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/