Avi Rubin on Lou Dobbs last night discussing e-voting machine flaws

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/22/e-voting-flaws-on-lou-dobbs/

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E-Voting Flaws on Lou Dobbs



By: Jamie Holly on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 at 12:01 PM - PDT

There was an interesting segment on Lou Dobbs last night regarding E-Voting, with Aviel Rubin, author of the book Brave New Ballot.

Aviel gives great insight into the flaws with the e-voting machines and exactly how vulnerable they are to software flaws and/or attacks.

[RufusEarl]

1. It's amazing !!

People in a position to stop the use of these unreliable machines ignore all the facts, and just push ahead with elections. The issue on Lou Dobbs last night, these machines failed the test but are going to be used in upcoming elections. No way to do a recount, no way to verify the winner, but no matter we spent all this money and we're going to use the damn machines. Amazing simply amazing !!

[Stevepol]

2. Tremendous video. Lays out succinctly the whole schlemiel.

[Dinger]

3. I Saw The End, But I Have Dial Up : ( (nt)

[madokie]

4. If Lou and Company will stay on top of this we might have a chance

of wrestling our Constitution from the cabal in control's bloody hands

[stepnw1f]

5. Even Bernie Sanders is Afraid of this Issue

Thom tries to bring this up with him, yet his reaction to it is not what I want to see in an elected official. He is not the only one.... I want to see more from our elected officials.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

6. would need only a few seconds' worth of access to the computer...

...according to Aviel Rubin.
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Consider one simple mode of attack that has already proved effective on a widely used DRE, the Accuvote made by Diebold (nyse: DBD - news - people ). It's called overwriting the boot loader, the software that runs first when the machine is booted up. The boot loader controls which operating system loads, so it is the most security-critical piece of the machine. In overwriting it an attacker can, for example, make the machine count every fifth Republican vote as a Democratic vote, swap the vote outcome at the end of the election or produce a completely fabricated result. To stage this attack, a night janitor at the polling place would need only a few seconds' worth of access to the computer's memory card slot.

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<http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082206B.shtml>

[Wilms]

7. K & R n/t

[Kurovski]

8. Kick!(nt)