More Bad News for Diebold:
Security Poor in ElectronicVoting Machines, Study Warns
- There are numerous vulnerabilities through which these systems could be hacked.
- Some of these can be addressed prior to the March primaries.
- Some additional vulnerabilities can be address prior to the November general election.
- Ultimately, Diebold election software has to be rewritten to meet industry security standards.
"We were genuinely surprised at the basic level of the exploits" that allowed tampering, said Michael Wertheimer, the Red Team leader and a former security expert for the National Security Agency. Referring to the inconsistent application of security, he added, "It's like washing your face and drying it with a dirty towel."
William A. Arbaugh, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Maryland and a member of the Red Team exercise, said, "I can say with confidence that nobody looked at the system with an eye to security who understands security." He added, "It seemed everywhere we scratched, there was something that's pretty troubling."
[Additional coverage from the Washington Post.]
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