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Diebold Dies Hard

Diebold went and posted pictures of the key used to open their accuvote machines. Ross Kinard made copies of the keys from the picture. Two of these three homemade keys actually work.

Do any of us really trust Diebold to manufacture secure voting machines at this point? Do we really need to wait until there's an actual, identified, security breech during an election to correct these problems?

Further, if you look at the image of the keys, they're from an order page. I find it disturbing that physical access to these devices is controlled by a common key for sale on a web site...or at least it was available there until they removed it. Check the google cache.


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Author: Tim Erlin

Tim Erlin, CISSP, is a Principal Product Manager at nCircle, responsible for vulnerability management and configuration auditing. In his nearly 10 year tenure at nCircle, he has also held the positions of Senior Sales Engineer and QA Engineer. His career in information technology began with systems and network administration.


   




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