Is this "our" Diebold?

[livvy]

March 21, 2008


Diebold Selects EnCase® Enterprise Platform from Guidance Software

Susan J. Campbell
TMCnet Contributing Editor

Digital Investigations™ solutions provider, Guidance Software, has announced that Diebold has purchased its EnCase® Enterprise platform. Diebold, a provider of integrated self-service delivery and security systems and services, employs more than 17,000 associates and has representation in nearly 90 countries worldwide.

The EnCase Enterprise platform is designed to provide organizations with the power to search, collect, preserve and analyze the vast amounts of data associates with doing business today. The platform also allows for the generation of detailed reports on those findings.

This activity is created from a central location with minimal disruption, no matter the size or complexity of the network environment. EnCase Enterprise reduces exposure to risk by quickly and accurately addressing corporate policy violations, including intellectual property theft, employee fraud and computer misuse.

The solution also allows the organization to respond to regulatory data requests such as those required under Sarbanes-Oxley.

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http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/topics/enterprise-voip/articles/23463-diebold-selects-encase-enterprise-platform-from-guidance-software.htm

[Peace Patriot]

1. Due to its notoriety as Bush/Cheney fundraisers counting our votes with "trade secret" code,

Diebold--a "total information awareness" (spy on your every transaction) bloodsucking government vendor--recently began separating its election division from the parent corp, and changed the election division name to "Premier."

Yeah, it's the same fuckheads whose CEO Wally O'Dell raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Bush/Cheney (a Bush "Pioneer" right up there with Ken Lay) and promised in writing to "deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush/Cheney in 2004."

They also do ATM's, and public university and other government data systems. It's hard to choose among the three major election theft industry players--Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia--which one is the worst cauldron of evil. Diebold is the most well known (that's why they changed their election division's name), but ES&S is arguably even more sulfuric, partly because it is not a household word, but most of all, because its initial funder and major investor is a far rightwing billionaire nutball who gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon foundation (which touts the death penalty for homosexuals--among other things). They manufacture their voting machines in miserable sweatshop conditions in the Phillipines.* Nice folks we have 'counting' all our votes with trade secret, proprietary programming code and virtually no audit/recount controls. Nice folks our Democratic leaders handed our election system over to! (Yeah, it took both Bushite fascists and Vichy Democrats to get this done--in the same month as the Iraq War Resolution--Oct '02. Hm, I wonder if there is any connection.) Sequoia has better perfume but they, too, are vote vampires--very corrupt (hired California Sec of State Bill Jones to peddle their machines, after Jones peddled e-voting to California), recently threatened a Princeton professor with a lawsuit for trying to examine and analyze their "trade secret" code--a defense of corporate secrecy against the public's right to transparent vote counting that all three of these fuckers have vigorously mounted--and had a hand in providing the soggy punchcards that produced "hanging chads" in Democratic areas in Florida in 2000.*

So, now Diebold wants to give your boss the power to monitor you every second of the day, for "employee fraud and computer misuse" and plug their data right into government regulatory agencies. Next we'll see them developing add-ons to this system, consisting a tube in your uretha, to continually monitor your drug use, and a chip in your brain, to monitor straying thoughts, and to connect all your bank records, voting habits, drug habits, purchases, sexual stimulations, conversations and interactions with other human beings and machines, 24/7, to Dick Cheney's office.

THROW DIEBOLD, ES&S AND SEQUOIA ELECTION THEFT MACHINES INTO 'BOSTON HARBOR' NOW!

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*See "The Trouble With Touchscreens," Dan Rather, www.HD.net.

[livvy]

2. I thought it had to be.

I knew they had changed the name of their election division.

It seems this particular acquisition is especially insidious considering their history. I feel like I'm missing something here, besides the disgustingly obvious. This article brought up all kinds of red flags waving over my lovely tinfoil hat, but I haven't put it together yet. What implications do you see specifically for this election, or is my hat misfiring?

I do like your summary of their history and misdeeds. Well done and couldn't agree more!:patriot:

[victordrazen]

6. wow.

Lots of good info, well, "bad" good info.

[yourout]

3. An easter kick.

[Mnemosyne]

4. A 5th knr for more visibility. n/t

:hi:

[livvy]

5. Thanks!

That short little article has really bugged me since I read it. I don't know if it's my imagination, or what, but there is something nagging at me about it, other than the obvious.

[livvy]

7. How it works...

I am not computer savvy enough to get all of this. How is this applicable to elections, or is it not?




a bit of what the parts do:
The Enterprise Examiner
Software installed on a computer where authorized investigators perform incident response, investigations and audits on designated systems. This software leverages the robust functionality of the world's standard in investigative enforcement, EnCase Forensic, with network-enhanced capabilities for security, administration and enterprise investigations.

Servlet
A nonintrusive, auto-updating, passive software agent that is installed on workstations and servers for anytime protection. Connectivity is established between the SAFE, the Servlet and the Examiner to analyze and acquire devices that have the Servlet installed. The Servlet has special stealth capabilities for the most challenging environments. Servlets run on the following operating systems: All Windows operating systems, Linux kernel 2.4 and above, Solaris 8/9 both 32 & 64 bit, Mac OSX and AIX.


http://www.guidancesoftware.com/products/ee_works.asp

edit to add main site link

http://www.guidancesoftware.com/products/ee_index.asp

[livvy]

8. Can someone explain to me what this program does?

Yeah, I'm still piddling around with this. The problem is I don't really know what I'm looking for with my limited computer knowledge.

I found this...Could this be used to clean/erase/modify a program to make it impossible to analyse what the original program was set to do?


FastBloc® Software Edition

FastBloc SE provides speed, reliability and versatility — as well as the convenience of being able to conduct a forensically sound acquisition or investigation without hardware devices.

IDE/SATA Support on a number of popular PCI controller cards:


Promise Ultra 133 TX2
Promise SATA 150 TX2plus
SIIG UltraATA/133 PCI
Promise Ultra100 TX2
SIIG Ultra ATA 100 PCI RAID


Safely acquire every sector on hard drives, outside the number normally presented by Windows, to overcome the issues involving Host Protected Areas (HPAs) and Device Configuration Overlays (DCOs) on IDE and SATA hard drives.
Wipe every sector of IDE hard drives, outside the number normally presented by Windows.
Restore IDE hard drives to identical-size IDE hard drives.

SCSI Support with the following:
Adaptec 29160 Controller Card
Granite Digital SCSIVue Removeable 68-pin Hot-Swap SCSI Drive Bay (P/N 5153)

Plug and Play Support:
Safely acquire IDE hard drives, using common read/write PnP adaptors.
Safely acquire USB thumb drives — especially useful for those drives lacking write protection switches.
Safely acquire USB external storage drives, without having to remove the enclosed IDE hard drive.
Safely acquire FireWire external storage drives, without having to remove the enclosed IDE hard drive.

Fastbloc SE supports HPA and DCO as well as a combination of the two. Of note, the HPA is removed temporarily so the disk is not modified at the end, but DCO and the combination of HPA and DCO permanently alters the disk.
FastBloc SE users must note that EnCase can only reach HPAs and DCOs through supported IDE and SATA channels.
Please note that FastBloc SE is designed as a write-block technology for Windows acquisitions and not a decryption technology. Thumb drives using security technologies to encrypt data may still have to be overcome before an image acquisition takes place.

http://www.guidancesoftware.com/products/ee_modules.asp#eds