Worst security flaw ever - 3 states invoke Diebold emergency procedures

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" DitziSis " <mk2967

Thu, 11 May 2006 21:39:29 -0700 (PDT)

Worst security flaw ever - 3 states invoke Diebold emergency

procedures

 

 

 

 

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- The Oakland Tribune scooped other newspapers yesterday on the story.

- Pennsylvania's Michael Shamos sequestered all Diebold touch-screens.

- California is invoking emergency procedures.

- The state of Iowa is trying to figure out a way to scrub Diebold clean.

 

Harri Hursti has just come out with Hursti Report II, a Black Box Voting

project.

 

Here it is:

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf

 

A second study with 12 more defects will be released Monday May 15.

 

WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS?

 

Back doors were found in three separate levels. They can be used one

at a time or combined for a deep attack that can permanently

compromise the

Diebold touch-screens.

 

Almost nothing will work to ensure that machines that have already been

delivered have not been contaminated -- the very forensic procedures that

MIGHT identify tampering also wipe clean any evidence.

 

The procedures being used in Pennsylvania, California, and Iowa will not

necessarily work if the system has already been contaminated. Worse, the

very procedure needed to cleanse the system can just as easily

re-contaminate

it.

 

Next week, Black Box Voting will release recommended solutions in

conjunction with a

recommendation to pull all Diebold touch-screen machines off the shelf.

 

For more information, visit the following links:

 

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/27675.html

 

and to see what the Diebold lawyers are trying to do to Bruce Funk, click

here:

 

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/27671.html

(Scroll past the Georgia cluelessness to a transcript of the retaliatory

meeting held to try to force Funk out of office.)

 

Diebold lawyers are also retaliating against Stephen Heller, trying to put

him in jail for leaking documents that have been compared in importance to

the actions of famed Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsburg. Click here

for the latest on Heller:

 

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/27423.html

 

and click here to donate to his defense fund:

 

http://www.hellerlegaldefensefund.com

 

(Diebold lawyer's vindictiveness has cost Heller his job and very nearly

his home. His courage in fighting for YOUR right to vote needs your

support.

 

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Black Box Voting is a nonprofit nonpartisan 501c(3) organization dedicated

to

fighting for your right to accurate and fair elections. We are supported

entirely

by citizen donations.

 

(We realize we just hit you up twice -- But really. Stephen Heller is

one of

our

personal heroes, and we put him first for a reason. Please read the story

about

Diebold's attempt to put him in prison for leaking documents showing they

were

planning a criminal defense budget for carrying out actions they had

already

been told were illegal.)

 

If you can support our work (Hursti Reports etc) here's how:

 

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/donate.html

or mail to:

Black Box Voting, Inc.

330 SW 43rd St Suite K

PMB 547

Renton WA 98055

 

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