[36627] in bugtraq
Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hollis Johnson)
Thu Sep 23 07:48:45 2004
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:09:21 -0700
To: Homer <hparker@homershut.net>, pressinfo@diebold.com
From: Hollis Johnson <hollis@cisco.com>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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This is what scares me:
"A Maryland county court yesterday rejected a challenge to the use of
electronic voting machines that sought to allow voters to opt out of using
the technology."
No option !!
Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,95688,00.html?from=homeheads
At 01:21 PM 9/22/2004 -0500, Homer wrote:
>On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 10:05, pressinfo@diebold.com wrote:
> > In-Reply-To: <20040831203815.13871.qmail@www.securityfocus.com>
> >
> > Diebold strongly refutes the existence of any "back doors" or "hidden
> > codes" in its GEMS software. These inaccurate allegations appear to
> > stem from those not familiar with the product, misunderstanding the
> > purpose of legitimate structures in the database. These structures
> > are well documented and have been reviewed (including at a source code
> > level) by independent testing authorities as required by federal
> > election regulations.
>
> And the reason that something this critical isn't open source so that
>*everyone* that wants to audit it can is? There is no way I will use one
>of those to process my vote till it has been proven to not have back
>doors. Independent testers are nice, but not enough to prove beyond a
>doubt that there are no hidden entries, and that 1 + 1 still = 2 in your
>calculations. Especially with the way this election year is going, I
>don't trust *anyone*. Just my 2 cents worth.
>
>--
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