bugtraq - Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor

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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:08:24 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam@...eport.org>
To: Paul Wouters <paul@...net.nl>
Cc: Jeremy Epstein <jeremy.epstein@...methods.com>,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:25:33PM +0200, Paul Wouters wrote:
| Diebold has proven to not earn the trust of the public. It deserves to lose
| money, or even go bankrupt. That's capitalism. You screw up and your product
| no longer sells and you go do something else. Perhaps Diebold can go into
| the playing cards business.

That's unlikely.  The Nevada Gaming Commission is quite strict about
how it checks machinery, and Diebold would doubtless fail.