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Science/Tech See other Science/Tech Articles Title: Hacked - Virus Implanted/Spread On Diebold Vote Machines! Hacked - Virus Implanted/Spread On Diebold Vote Machines! New, First-of-Its Kind, University Study Reveals Malicious Code Can Be Easily Inserted into Voting Machine, Spread from One System to the Next, Resulting in Flipped Votes, and Stolen Elections All Without a Trace Being Left Behind Study Also Confirms that Voter Access Cards Can Be Created At Home to Defeat Security Protocols, Allowing Voters to Vote Multiple Times in a Single Election! By Brad Friedman EXCLUSIVE 9-14-6 A vote for George Washington could easily be converted to a vote for Benedict Arnold on an electronic voting machine and neither the voter, nor the election officials administering the election would ever know what happened. It wouldn't require a "conspiracy theory" or a "conspiracy" at all. It could be done by a single person with just a few moments of access to the voting systems. Those new findings are detailed, and illustrated on video-tape, in a new first-of-its-kind study released by computer scientists and security experts at Princeton University today. The scientific study has revealed, for the first time, that a computer virus can be easily implanted on an electronic voting machine which could, in turn, result in votes flipped for opposing candidates. The virus, as well, could be written to then spread itself from one machine to the next resulting in a stolen election. The malfeasance would likely never be discovered, the scientists have said. Though the concept of stolen votes via electronic voting systems has been widely regarded as theoretically possible by experts up until now, a top-secret four-month long hands-on study of an actual touch-screen voting system, by the scientists at Princeton, has confirmed the worst nightmares of elections officials and American votersnot to mention a voting machine company known as Diebold. The BRAD BLOG has had exclusive access to the scientists and information being tested as the team's various hack attempts have been designed and carried out over the course of the study. Working directly with a Diebold AccuVote TS touch-screen voting system, the computer scientists have been able to implant a nearly-undetectable virus onto a touch-screen voting system, managing to successfully alter a voter's ballot - after it's already been confirmed and cast - in order to flip the vote so that it is recorded for a candidate other than the one the voter had intended. According to the study's team leader, Edward W. Felten, a professor at Princeton's Department of Computer Science, the report confirms and records in a video-taped demonstration that such a malicious virus could be easily inserted onto a Diebold touch-screen voting system by a single individual "with just one or two minutes of unsupervised access to either the voting machine or the memory card" used with the system to store ballot definitions and vote tabulations. The virus, as programmed by the Princeton team, could then spread from one voting system to the next depending on the way the machine in use is configured, or the way in which votes are tabulated in any particular jurisdication. "We've demonstrated that malicious code can spread like a virus from one voting machine to another," said Felten in an exclusive interview, "which means that a bad guy who can get access to a few machines - or only one - can infect one machine, which could infect another, stealing a few votes on each in order to steal an entire election." ... FULL STORY, BACKGROUND DETAILS, MORE... Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
#1. To: Zoroaster (#0)
Yup. All the Pubbies need to do is have a bought and paid for pollster bring the numbers within the "margin of error", stage some "event" to account for a sudden GOP surge in votes, and let the computer do the rest... "It doesn't matter who gets the most votes in an election; it only matters who counts the votes. ..." -Some Russkie.
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