Thursday, September 23, 2004

A 5 line hack can break into e-vote machines!!!!

From Daily Kos

Activists Find More E-Vote Flaws
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65031,00.html?tw=rss.TOP

In the demonstration, a five-line script whipped up by a hacker in Notepad altered the election tallies in Global Election Management System, or GEMS, the (Windows-based) software that runs on a county's server and tallies votes after they come in from Diebold touch-screen and optical-scan machines in polling places. Diebold's reponse?

Diebold spokesman David Bear said by phone that no one would risk manipulating votes in an election because it's against the law and carries a heavy penalty.

Feel better now?"