Hacking diebold for dummies
sth posted in SeriouslyGuys..., scary bad on August 10th, 2006
The Open voting Foundation released information on alternate booting configurations for the Diebold voting system. This includes hi-resolution picutres of the internals of the system and also show the exact jumpers to configure. According to them, a “completely legal and certified set of files can be instantly overridden and illegal uncertified code be made dominant in the system, and then this situation can be reversed leaving the legal code dominant again in a matter of minutes” — which is pretty scary. The worst part is that they say the flash could be read from a “field-added” piece of flash memory, which implies that one could run whatever they wanted on the system.
August 28th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Kind of ironic that a voting platform would be about a thousand times less secure then somthing trivial like the xbox 360 or PSP with their percausions against firmware overwrites, and unsigned code.