Diebold source code exposed.

[ocelot]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/10/1172/9052
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Dr. Avi Rubin is currently Professor of Computer Science at John Hopkins University. He "accidently"got his hands on a copy of the Diebold software program--Diebold's source code--which runs their e-voting machines.
Dr. Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up this software. One line in partictular stood out over all the rest:
#defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4"

All commercial programs have provisions to be encrypted so as to protect them from having their contents read or changed by anyone not having the key..The line that staggered the Hopkin's team was that the method used to encrypt the Diebold machines was a method called Digital Encryption Standard (DES), a code that was broken in 1997 and is NO LONGER USED by anyone to secure prograns.F2654hd4 was the key to the encryption. Moreover, because the KEY was IN the source code, all Diebold machines would respond to the same key. Unlock one, you have then ALL unlocked.
I can't believe there is a person alive who wouldn't understand the reason this was allowed to happen.
This wasen't a mistake by any stretch of the imagination. This was a fixed election, plain and simple.
This second coup d'etat is either stopped now or America ceases to be.
See more links at http://www.senderberl.com/111004.htm

 

[ocelot]

The above was taken from a message board:

Here are my thoughts:

So this makes me wonder what excuse there is for such poorly written code that it can't perform the extremely simple task of incrementing a set of variables by 1? As in x++. I also am a programmer and I can assure all here that there is nothing complex about the basic functions that a vote-counting program must do. Its first grade programming. Now making it secure is the more difficult part but in NO way should it be an excuse for votes counting backwards because of "memory" shortage, or votes showing up for the wrong candidate. The fact that problems like this happen tells me (and any other programmer of any moderate level of skill) that the entire software team at Diebold is grossly incompetent and should be added to the ranks of the unemployed for the good of the company and the nation

 

[ocelot]

The specific electronic voting machine problems with the low memory and incorrect vote registering occurred with machines made by Sequoia and ES&S. Tells me not a damn one of them can program there way out of a paper sack. Or are they just outright criminals?

 

[StevieD]

I vote criminals.

 

[Eddie Haskell]

O:

I am not a conspiracy guy by any stretch of the imagination but, I have had a funny feeling every since the results of this election were announced. The discrepency with the exit polls still bugs me and I haven't heard a good explanation to date.

Diebold makes electronic election machines. They are headquarted in Canton, Ohio. CEO O'Dell I believe, is a Bush ranger having raised over 100k for his re-election campaign. Saw a Diebold truck on 4th street here in Cincinnati several days after the election with Bush/Cheney bumper sticker.

None of this information alone equates to either the company intentionally making it easy to crack the security codes or intentionally creating a skewed result. Together it makes me wonder. Since this election was deemed by both sides as critical to the future of the country, it wouldn't shock me that this election was fixed or permitted to be fixed.

Eddie

 

[gardenweasel]

lol....

 

[ferdville]

And what did this diabolical machine have to do with the 18,000+ votes counted in a county with only 13,000 registered voters? Maybe this was the same outfit that counted those votes of all the dead people for Kennedy, too! We need a congressional investigation for sure. Perhaps they would be done by the next election. We all must give Kerry a great deal of credit. With all this heinous election fraud and disenfranchisement and intimidation going on across the board, why didn't he put up a bigger fuss? I applaud him for not wanting to be divisive and get on with things.

 

[reno4nook]

I wonder why are all of the Diebold programmers appear to be Bush supporters??

The Democrats had much much more money in their coffers this election. If the election was bought off, shouldn't it have been by the Democrats?

 

[DoMyDermBest]

And the implication is.... of course the Republicans stole the election? Surprised that the NY times, and 60 minutes hasn't run with this yet. Maybe they are waiting for the nomination of a conservative jurist, or maybe us right wing angry southerners are perceived to be too stupid to pull it off?

 

[CHARLESMANSON]

The most distant straws grasped at so far this year. That's all I gotta say. Pathetic. I'll bet you guys are still recounting Florida 2000 for the 17th time. "Hmmmmmmmmmm these recount results outta change one of these times!!!??" :142lmao: