HAH! Diebold voting machines have two hard-coded passwords - "diebold" & "12345678"

[Bill]

Have you ever heard anything so freakin stupid in your whole life?

You probably saw the news clips saying California decertified a bunch of voting machines - here's what the big media didn't tell you.

Diebold machines come preloaded with two hard-coded backdoor passwords. here they are in case you want to hack a diebold machine.

diebold

12345678

These details are hidden in the pdf reports...

"Some of these are problems that the vendors claimed to have fixed years ago. For example, Diebold claimed (p. 11) in 2003 that its use of hard-coded passwords was “resolved in subsequent versions of the software”. Yet the current version still uses at least two hard-coded passwords — one is “diebold” (report, p. 46) and another is the eight-byte sequence 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (report, p. 45). "

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1184

http://www.crypto.com/blog/ca_voting_report/

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/us/05vote.html?ex=1343966400&en=e58cdfbd1451d52a&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

[Moby]

Bill, everyone with even a small shred of intelligence knows that the main reason to go with electronic voting machines that don't keep any hard coded record is NOT to have fair and accurate elections even though a news station claiming to be fair and balanced tells us differently.

[disrupter]

i understand the need/desire to have rapid, easy electronic vote counts via computer/electronic voting,

But to do so without a paper audit trail with statistical sampling verification, prior to announcing the results & as a recount back-up is just stupid,

at that point it is better to return to paper or other more secure methods.

Diebold should be eliminated from consideration from the get go, as already biased & complicit in election theft.