Re: Diebold Voting Machines - Security Hole

Thank you for posting the expanded info, and the original poster should
have done at least part of that. Netnews is not a url posting
If he has already taken the time to post the url, he could also put in a
few sentences to let us know what the topic is. It is simply courtesy.


responder <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Jay C. James wrote:


"John" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.05.12.13.39.23.788992@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The following describes a significant security hole in Diebold voting
machines.

http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/06/05/12/1228203.shtml



John seriously, this is USENET, not RSS. Please give more information
with your posts.

Jay C. James seriously, what's the problem here? Oh, I see:

X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807

NO it has nothing to do with Microsoft or MS software. I have used Linux
for 10 years only. I also happen to like nn as a reader.
But even if I did not, clicking on a link takes time-- waiting for the link
to come up for example, etc.



For a lot of us on this ng, just clicking on the link brings up the full
story in our browsers. If you object to blindly clicking on links (a
valid objection) we just highlight the link text and paste it with a
middle click into our browser (not IE) URL bar.

Hey Jay C. James, (see how easy I can copy and paste?), he told you what
the story was about. OK (Deep sigh)

No he did not. He gave a title.


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Critical Security Hole Found in Diebold Machines Posted by Zonk on Friday
May 12, @09:13AM from the want-my-money-back dept.
United States Security Software Politics ckswift writes "From security
expert Bruce Schneier's blog, a major security hole has been found in
Diebold voting machines." From the article: "The hole is considered more
worrisome than most security problems discovered on modern voting
machines, such as weak encryption, easily pickable locks and use of the
same, weak password nationwide. Armed with a little basic knowledge of
Diebold voting systems and a standard component available at any computer
store, someone with a minute or two of access to a Diebold touch screen
could load virtually any software into the machine and disable it,
redistribute votes or alter its performance in myriad ways."

Feel better now?

Yes, this is the kind of thing anyone should do if posting a URL.



that described the vulnerabilities. (Or should they be called security
faults? Maybe threats to our governments?)

You are posting from a Texas Instruments. If you can read NNTP from work,
why can't you just take your IE over to the given URL and read the story,
or not?

Jay C. James seriously, this is USENET, not kindergarten. Get with the
program. Please. If you want to read a Linux ng from work with IE, at
least have the courtesy to not complain about your browser.

This is a serious security issue that affects voting and our our future
(and present?) governing officials may be. I am sure that if you are
serious, you want good elections as much as anyone else does.

Apparently you do not want it enough to have people tell us about the
problem. A url listing is not enough info. That url could easily also be a
link to a porno site. (and yes, I have had that happen in URLs posted to
supposedly serious news groups.)



If you are really a patriotic US American (or Canadian, I guess) please
take this somewhat seriously and quit complaining. The man did the right

He wanted to . The OP did not let him by not giving enough info for him to
decide whether it was a serious issue or not.

thing and I for one appreciate it. If you can't live with that kind of
thing, then politely and please take your adolescent NNTP attitude back to
the microsoft newsgroups and let us talk about more serious things without
interruption. Please and thank you very much. Now go away. Please. And
Thank You.
.

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