bradblog.com — In what has got to be both the stupidest move by Diebold and the most hilarious hack ever, Princeton students take an image of the master key to the Diebold voting boxes on the Diebold website and use it to create a real master key that will open any Diebold voting box. Clever.
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bradblogJan 25, 2007
Actually, they've now done a bait and switch and replaced the page with the mechanical key for one with a digital key card! Classic Diebold stuff. The original story has more details on the latest updates...Server is behaving better. At least for now...
colincornabyJan 25, 2007
A better question: WHY the hell do they have a web store selling keys to the voting boxes?
daviddiggJan 25, 2007
I don't quite understand how the American people put up with these bogus electronic voting machines. They are completely f**ked, we're talking Hello Kitty in hardcore porn f**ked. Seriously, George Orwell was right - we've got Gonzales saying 1+1 = 3, Bush is vague as hell about "dire consequences" if we "lose" in Iraq, whatever "losing" means at this point, and Cheney is calling the shots from behind the curtain. Ten years ago we were rocking! And then we had the war on weaklings, also known as the "Global War on Terror."
pbgswdJan 25, 2007
Dear americans, you are screwed until you get rid of this crap. And only then will you be able to begin the painful long process of unscrewing yourselves from Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, Rice, Diebold, and all the other bad bad people you have running your country into the ground for the sake of their own ideology.
sarkosJan 25, 2007
Winner takes the Presidency!
band1tJan 25, 2007
"The best idea I've heard is to have electronic voting and assign each voter, at the time they vote, a random alpha-numeric ID. Post the results of the election, vote by vote, on the web. Anyone can then tally up the votes to check the results AND each person could go and find their single user, random voter ID to verify that their vote is what they entered."This is a bad idea because votes can then be sold or voters can be coerced into voting a certain way if threatened. The voter simply would need to record their ID and pass it on to the vote buyer for verification.
protruthsJan 10, 2008
One day after the New Hampshire Primary, and look, everyone seems to know that the voting process is rigged. Yet, the controlled media bow to the NWO, CFR scum and We The People are more enslaved than ever. Dear Lord, help America break these chains of tyranny.
amidaFeb 6, 2008
The off-the-shelf Yahoo Store website doesn't exactly win my confidence in the company either.
natural_smurfFeb 6, 2008
lawl.
int19hFeb 6, 2008
The moral of the story: don't let anybody take pictures of your keys!
dragongirl724Feb 6, 2008
I'm glad they kept the picture up for the article, now we can all have one! Maybe Ron Paul will have a chance now :) We'll just beat diebolt at their own game. sweet!<a class="user" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066">http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4066</a>
bitterbugFeb 6, 2008
Remember in the last election how a town with 800 people had 3500 Republican votes cast?Elections should be done with physical paper ballots. To improve on paper ballot security, I'd like to see each ballot uniquely identified with a serial number present on both the ballot and a receipt that the voter can keep, but is not specifically tied to the voter in any way.Then after the vote, if a voter feels that the results of their region are questionable they could use the receipt to verify that their vote remained cast in the direction they intended.
jstautzFeb 7, 2008
No kidding. Forget making a copy -- just look at the spacing on the key. It's not even double-sided! Anyone who knows anything about lockpicking could pop those things open in about three seconds. Jesus.
dropletJun 22, 2010
sample size assessment, best assessment.(wish it was sarcasm -_-)