Video of Diebold problems

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Diebold is the company that supplied electronic voting machines that were used in the 2004 elections. Here's a little demo showing how vulnerable these Diebold voting machines are. It is actual video of Diebold software in use. It's a big file, so it's being hosted in a manner that many here likely aren't familiar with.

Here are the details:
* This uses an application called "Bittorrent," which many haven't heard of, but which apparently is responsible for two thirds of the bandwidth used on the Internet today.
* This works by distributing the load between uploaders and downloaders. Basically, everyone who downloads also uploads. This means that the more people that use the system, the greater the performance.
* Things really speed up if you're willing to leave the application up and running after your download is complete.
Want to get a copy of the (160 megabyte) file? Here's what you do:
* Make sure you have a bittorrent client installed. The original client (http://bittorrent.com/download.html) is easy to use and works well, but there's a much more full-featured client (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php) available for those who might want to host their own files. Both are free and open-source.
* If you're running a firewall, you should allow incoming connections on port 6881 (though this is configurable with the better clients). If you don't share, the system notices and your downloads can suffer.
* Point your broswer to http://66.80.73.52:6969 and click on the GEMSDEMO.AVI link.
* Wait for the download to finish, and remember to leave your client running once the download is complete. In order to not cause a slowdown I've capped the max upload speed -- I really need people to help mirror this thing by leaving the application running.
That's it. Let me know if there are problems.

[UL_Approved]

1. How are you sending?

If you are hosting this with an unrestricted Internet connection, you can try this software package:

http://spyamp.sourceforge.net/

This creates a web server to host this information. If I didn't have my school firewall to worry about, I would be hosting right now.

[Bad Words]

2. Bandwidth is an issue,

hence the peer to peer method.

[UL_Approved]

3. What is not working then?

How are you unable to get stuff to work? What is not working, the link, the connection, etc.?

BTW, Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[rman]

4. where does he say something isn't working?

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[ReneB]

5. download is workin here n/t

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6. UL

Thanks for the welcome. Has anyone watched the video yet? Please post a reply of what you think.

[UL_Approved]

7. I can't use BitTorrent through my firewall

I need another way to get it working. I suggested SpyAmp because it is a web server. It can allow direct download of anything you put into a WinAmp playlist.

[rman]

8. my torrent client is showing a lot of US flags,

one Canada, one Germany, one The Netherlands, a few unidentied.
All in all providing enough bandwith to max out my download (some 450KByte/s). Isn't peer-cooperation great? It's such a socialist thing to do.

(using G3 Torrent client)

It completed downloading while i was typing this, going to check it out.

[Eloriel]

9. How about more info about what the video is all about, who did it,

that kind of thing?

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10. Info...

Diebold machines use software called GEMS. This is a demonstration of the GEMS software. You get to see the program and how it works, and it shows exactly how to cheat the machines without requiring a password and without recording the changes that you've made. This method of hacking the votes means that one can alter votes in a way that precinct spot checking such as the California mandated 1% manual recount won't catch. It's about 15 minutes long.

This video shows exactly why a lawsuit was brought forth in California by Bev Harris, Jim March, and Lowell Finley, and the video itself was created by Jim March. For more information, you can check out www.blackboxvoting.org

[Bad Words]

11. Here's another server

Here's the file where you don't need bittorrent or anything - it's just a plain .AVI file. This is my home computer so it can only support a few connections without major slowdowns. I limited it to 4 connections so I don't think it will go too slowly.

Go to http://24.17.49.107:8000/

Then click GEMSDEMO