DIEBOLD'S DELIBERATE SECURITY VULNERABILITY

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon

As was expected the corporate media picked-up the latest in Diebold's sordid story -- which we reported first here last Friday -- with articles by Ian Hoffman yesterday and today and even the Associated Press stepped in as well.

Unfortunately the headline of Hoffman's article yesterday characterized the security hole as being a 'glitch'; which this certainly is not. It is also not a 'flaw' as it was characterized by today's Hoffman and AP articles. (Ed note: Hoffman has been very good at reporting on all of these related stories, so we don't wish to be overly critical of him, but rather point out the inaccurate characterization.)

This is a 'feature' that was knowingly installed by Diebold. It was not a mistake or something that was overlooked in the design of the software. It is not a 'bug', 'glitch', 'flaw', 'error in programming' or any other simplistic name. Michael Shamos, a Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor and veteran voting-systems examiner for the state of Pennsylvania has said this:

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002814.htm

They seem to work quite well for the purpose intended. K&R.

That is the only way they will listen. Public exposure has been used many times with security exploits involving software like Microsoft Windows. The vendors cannot ignore a serious security flaw that is in the wild and nor can everyone else.