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RE: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Polazzo Justin)
Mon Sep 27 08:01:42 2004
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From: "Polazzo Justin" <Justin.Polazzo@facilities.gatech.edu>
To: "Barry Fitzgerald" <bkfsec@sdf.lonestar.org>, <vvaduva@dapsco.com>
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It is impossible for a company to be non-partisan. That is why it would
be nice to develop an open source solution. That would be non-partisan.
Having being created by democrats, republicans, anarchists, whoever
wanted to contribute.
-JP
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From: Barry Fitzgerald [mailto:bkfsec@sdf.lonestar.org]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:19 PM
To: vvaduva@dapsco.com
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com; Polazzo Justin; pressinfo@diebold.com
Subject: Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor
Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes
vvaduva@dapsco.com wrote:
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>Well now you are getting assinine and political! If that's the case,
>why would I trust my democrat baker with making non-poisoned bread for
>me? The problem is technical not political! e-voting is
>CRAP...insecure, inaccurate. Stick with what works, i.e. paper
>ballots. They are cheap, accountable and hard to fake.
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The problem is both technical and political. The political impacts the
technical -- the technical aspect doesn't exist in a bubble.
Likewise, I wouldn't trust a voting machine that was created by a
company whose executives promised elections to democrats.
I wasn't making a point about the party, I was making a point about the
appearance of partisanship. Voting machine companies should be
inherently non-partisan.
-Barry
