closed source voting: bad
2005-09-16 16:57:05.791051+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
In the "told you so" department: US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin SB04-252:
| Diebold GEMS Central Tabulator 1.17.7, 1.18 |
A vulnerability exists due to an undocumented backdoor account, which could a local or remote authenticated malicious user modify votes. No workaround or patch available at time of publishing. We are not aware of any exploits for this vulnerability. | GEMS Central Tabulator Vote Database Vote Modification | Medium | BlackBoxVoting.org, August 31, 2004 |
Those who've had dealings with CERT will understand my reluctance to believe that that last statement means anything at all.
Open source and paper trails, kids!