New Security Woes for E-Vote Firm

[Robbien]

Following an embarrassing leak of its proprietary software over a file transfer protocol site last January, the inner workings of Diebold Election Systems have again been laid bare.

A hacker has come forward with evidence that he broke the security of a private Web server operated by the embattled e-vote vendor, and made off last spring with Diebold's internal discussion-list archives, a software bug database and more software.
The unidentified attacker provided Wired News with an archive containing 1.8 GB of files apparently taken March 2 from a site referred to by the Ohio-based company as its "staff website."

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The anonymous attacker said he broke into the Diebold staff site, which was located at https://staff.dieboldes.com, after reading in January about how unauthorized outsiders had copied source code and documentation from an insecure FTP site operated by the company at the Internet address ftp://ftp.gesn.com.

"In a few short minutes I had access to their replacement for the FTP site, their 'secure' web," wrote the hacker.

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59925,00.html

[alaine]

1. Thank God for his little hacking soul.

I guess this is what it is going to take to scare the pants off people. He's taking quite a personal risk to come forward, too.

edit: I am freaked out by the fact that the voter registration lists are/ will be linked to so many different places after the implementation of HAVA. It will all be hooked up with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Adminstration, the Division of Motor Vehicles, and the Department of Corrections.

[AndyTiedye]

2. If We Left it Up To Diebold...

...not only would they be able to steal our votes,
but they'd keep a dossier on which way we tried to vote.

Or maybe they'd just build a trapdoor and hook it to the "Democrat" button.

[Code_Name_D]

3. Go go - crackers for America

Our last line of defences for our right to vote. And I tell you something else. If they don't fix this, I bet you the crackers will manipulate the votes themselves to expose the flaws that way too.