Friday, September 16, 2005

Diebold Insider Talks: Anyone Could Hack In

Brad Blog: "In exclusive stunning admissions some 11 months after the 2004 Presidential Election, a "Diebold Insider" is now finally speaking out for the first time about the alarming security flaws w/in Diebold, Inc's electronic voting systems, software and machinery, and said: "One malicious person can change the outcome of any Diebold election." The source is acknowledging that the company's "upper management" (as well as "top govt officials") were keenly aware of the "undocumented backdoor" in Diebold's main "GEM Central Tabulator" software well prior to the 04 election. A branch of the Fedrl Govt even posted a security warning on the Internet. Pointing to a little-noticed "Cyber Security Alert" issued by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), a division of the US Dept of Homeland Security, the source inside Diebold -who "for the time being" is requesting anonymity due to a continuing sensitive relationship w/the company- is charging that Diebold's technicians, including at least 1 of its lead programmers, knew about the security flaw & that the company instructed them to keep quiet about it."
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