University Cracks Every State Voting Machine

University of California researchers successfully Cracks Every State Voting Machine certified by the state, according to a report commissioned by the State of California and released yesterday. University "hackers" bypassed or gained control of voting systems from Sequoia, used in Alameda, Napa and Santa Clara counties; Hart InterCivic, used in San Mateo and Sonoma Counties; and Diebold, used in Marin County. The findings will be presented Monday at a hearing in Sacramento. It will likely prove controversial because the "hackers" were given machine source code, manuals and unlimited access to the machines (whereas real hackers would only be able to get their hands on source code and manuals...)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/VOTING.TMP&tsp=1



California Report on Easy Hack of Vote Machines
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vsr.htm

Edit:
Senate to Hold Hearing on Security of Voting Machines
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/senate-to-hold-.html

Zuletzt geändert von anselm am 02.08.2007, 11:29, insgesamt 1-mal geändert.

How to hack an electronic voting machine
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=2987037

GOT DEMOCRACY?: Confronting America’s Electoral Crisis
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-732315032094935580

Tja, das ist echt schlimm. Ich hoffe, daß bei den nächsten Wahlen wieder händisch zu gezählt wird. Wobei da natürlich auch manipuliert werden kann.

This edition of The Listening Post from Homeland Defense Week focuses on the latest news surrounding the security of electronic voting systems.

http://www.podtech.net/home/3738/hack-the-vote-2008

hm, ich find es fast beruhigend dass auch "Zuschauer" die Ergebnisse frei manipulieren können. War bisher doch eher jenen zuzuordnen die die Geräte aufstellen, alles etwas schwamig zu sagen: "ja nach unseren datensätzen, hat der und der gewonnen"...

also wieso nicht selbst manipulieren,...
z.b. delete * from 'votes' where 'canidat' = 'fool' ..
und dann beobachten was ihre datensätze danach angeblich hervorbringen. - andere gewinner? ich weiß nicht....

ich hab irgendwo mal gehört: "Wahlen wären verboten, würden Sie etwas bewirken".
kA ... im lokalen bereichen, indenen ergebnisse tatsächlich überprüfbar bleiben kann man viel bewirken, das steht fest.
aber sobal ich hergehe und ein "weltumfrage" starten würde,...
wer kann garantieren dass hier alles sauber lief?

und wenn bereits alles sauber liefe.. würden sich sehr viele menschen für krieg, betrug und wahnsinn entscheiden...
ich kenne niemanden der so etwas wählen würde! ... ???

...liegt wohl an den datensätzen... oder irgendwer wirds schon wollen...
was wollt ihr denn?

US cash dispenser and security company Diebold has admitted that it has failed to find a buyer for its troubled electronic voting machine business.

Diebold and other manufacturers of such voting machines have been hit by criticism that they are unreliable and vulnerable to tampering.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6950024.stm

State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California's voting machines and change results or take control of some of the systems' electronic functions, according to a University of California study released Friday.

The researchers "were able to bypass physical and software security in every machine they tested,'' said Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who authorized the "top to bottom review" of every voting system certified by the state.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/VOTING.TMP

Diebold gibt Fehler in Wahlcomputern zu

Diebold, umstrittener Hersteller von Wahlcomputern, der sich wegen diverser Probleme kürzlich in “Premier” umbenannt hat, hat nun erstmals zugeben müssen, dass die von ihnen hergestellten Maschinen seit zehn Jahren bei diversen Wahlen abgegebene Stimmen “verloren” haben. Das Problem existiert sowohl bei den optischen Scannern als auch bei den Touchscreen-Geräten, und die Firma hat bereits 34 US-Bundesstaaten gewarnt, die ihre Geräte einsetzen. Im Mai hatte die Firma noch versucht, das Problem auf die Antiviren-Hersteller zu schieben.

Ohio Voting Machines Contained Programming Error That Dropped Votes

Ohio Sues Diebold/Premiere Over Lost E-Voting Votes

Ein wenig Hintergrund-Infos zu den Diebold-Maschinen gibt es beim CCC

Evaluating the Security of Electronic Voting Systems

The Security Group at the University of California in Santa Barbara has released the video that shows the attacks carried out against the Sequoia voting system. I heard about the video when talking to some members of the group, but it was never made available to the public before. The video was shot as part of the Top-To-Bottom Review organized by the California Secretary of State. Even though the review was carried our in July 2007, the video has been posted only now, more than a year after (why?)

cs.ucsb.edu - sos.ca.gov - Computer Security Group at UCSB

Report: Voting problems in several swing states

A new Government Accountability Office report on voting system testing finds that the Election Assistance Commission has not notified election officials across the country about electronic voting machine failures.

And a new study by Common Cause and the Century Foundation finds that 10 very vital swing states have significant voting problems that have not been addressed since the last election.

Those 10 states, according to Common Cause, are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.

cnn.com - A Government Accountability Office report and Common Cause election study [PDF]