Ahh, democracy in the age of special interests. Diebold has strongly criticized the study on the ease of hacking Diebold machines, but Diebold always has an answer when a new fault is publicized, don't they? Surely any correction today means no problems ever again with Diebold machines, right? How many times per year/month/week does Microsoft (or any tech company) produce a new urgent hot fix to correct a new hole in their product that could easily allow hacking or destruction? Maybe Diebold has corrected some of the issues, but this still does not sound like it is ready for prime time. Their cozy relationships with the GOP hardly make me any more confident in their ability to deliver a neutral solution.
A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.In a paper posted on the university's Web site, Edward Felten and two graduate students described how they had tested a Diebold AccuVote-TS machine they obtained, found ways to quickly upload malicious programs and even developed a computer virus able to spread such programs between machines.
