How to Rig an Election - The Source Code Revealed
July 27, 2003 7:56 PM   Subscribe

How to Rig an Election - The Source Code Revealed
blackboxvoting.com has exposed a system integrity flaw at Diebold Election Systems. As late as January 2003, Diebold's customers uploaded their election results to an open FTP site, where anyone could download the files, alter them, then upload them again.
posted by metameme (4 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: I recall seeing this earlier this month



 
Call me naive, but why not just go to the New York Times?
posted by the fire you left me at 8:15 PM on July 27, 2003


i'm glad the voting system my county uses isn't part of that. then again, it might have its own issues.
posted by birdherder at 8:21 PM on July 27, 2003


Call me naive, but why not just go to the New York Times?

can you say valerie plame? well, they apparently can't.
posted by quonsar at 8:36 PM on July 27, 2003


heh. looks like they did go to the times.
posted by quonsar at 9:01 PM on July 27, 2003


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