Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor

From: Adam Shostack (adam_at_homeport.org)
Date: 09/28/04

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    Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:08:24 -0400
To: Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl>

    On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:25:33PM +0200, Paul Wouters wrote:
    | Diebold has proven to not earn the trust of the public. It deserves to lose
    | money, or even go bankrupt. That's capitalism. You screw up and your product
    | no longer sells and you go do something else. Perhaps Diebold can go into
    | the playing cards business.

    That's unlikely. The Nevada Gaming Commission is quite strict about
    how it checks machinery, and Diebold would doubtless fail.

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