[lbo-talk] Vote Fraud? The Geeks Speak.

John Adams jadams01 at sprynet.com
Sun Nov 14 05:57:59 PST 2004


On Nov 14, 2004, at 12:27 AM, Ronnie Dadone wrote:


> !!! BREAKING - DIEBOLD SOURCE CODE !!!
> by ouranos
> Wed Nov 10th, 2004 at 08:07:02 PST
>
> Dr. Avi Rubin is currently Professor of Computer Science at John
> Hopkins University. He "accidently"got his hands on a copy of the
> Diebold software program--Diebold's source code--which runs their
> e-voting machines.
> Dr. Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up
> this software. One line in partictular stood out over all the rest:
> #defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4"

That is indeed crappy security. However, it's not breaking news--it's old code which Avi Rubin has had and publicized for a long time, and Diebold claims this has been changed.

All the best,

John A



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