Turns out that any hotel minibar key, jukebox key, etc. can open Diebold voting mach

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Remember those guys from Princeton who recently dissected a Diebold voting machine and wrote a serious academic paper laying the smack downon our favorite shady e-voting company? The plot thickens with those Jersey brainiacs: after giving a presentation to some computer science colleagues last week, Prof. Ed Felten was approached by Chris Tengi, a member of the department's technical staff, who pointed out that the key that opens the AccuVote-TS voting machine is very similar to a key that he has at home. Tengi's key opened the voting machine, and upon further investigation, the Princeton posse discovered that both keys are actually a common office furniture type used for hotel minibars, electronic equipment and jukeboxes. Furthermore, said keys can easily be bought on eBay or from various online retailers. So, all you need to hack Diebold's crackerjack security is to spend a little cash on these keys, bring 'em to your next local election along with a cheap-o flash drive, and you can easily open the lock that houses that Diebold memory card while you're in the voting booth -- good times, hey? If your locality uses these machines, you may want to write your Congressional representative and your county authorities to alert them to this, erm, "feature" -- better yet, buy them one of these keys and send it along with your letter, inviting them to test it out for themselves!

[hepkatmama]

what a great way to get attention through the mail.

it would be better if someone just hacked the voting booth & elected bugs bunny or something. nothing makes a point like civil disobedience & mild felonies.

[Silver]

Originally Posted by hepkatmama

what a great way to get attention through the mail.

it would be better if someone just hacked the voting booth & elected bugs bunny or something. nothing makes a point like civil disobedience & mild felonies.

[HarveytheRabbit]

Originally Posted by hepkatmama

what a great way to get attention through the mail.

it would be better if someone just hacked the voting booth & elected bugs bunny or something. nothing makes a point like civil disobedience & mild felonies.

Bahahahaha....hahaha.....I love you

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Apperently anyone that has a Dell server in the office can get one of these keys. They use the exact same locks/keys...now all you need is a $20 flash drive and you can ellect whoever you please.

[JoshM]

So why didnt Gore and other "Internet inventors" hack it the other way is what i wanna know? You would think the Dems would have the advantage in these kinds of things.

I think electing bugs over bush would be more of a civil service if you ask me. It too bad people enough people wouldn't think bugs was real because he ALWAYS wins!

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Originally Posted by JoshM

So why didnt Gore and other "Internet inventors" hack it the other way is what i wanna know? You would think the Dems would have the advantage in these kinds of things.

who knows if they didnt try and werent just out hacked by the other side. Its pretty clear that something fishy was going down in the states like Ohio where the exit polls werent even in the same ballpark as the results that the machines reported. There were so many discrepancies in almost every state that had diebold machines its kinda hard to believe that both sides werent monkeying around with the things.