31 Jul 2006
Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine

Until and unless these machines are open sourced - and I mean hardware and software - they should not be used. Period.

The folks at Open Voting Foundation got their hands on a Diebold AccuVote TS touchscreen voting machine. They took it apart (pictures here), and found the most serious security flaw ever discovered in this machine. A single switch is all that is required to cause the machine to boot an unverified external flash instead of the builtin verified EEPROM.

(link) [Slashdot]

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