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Originally Posted by mburbank
Look, no matter what you think of the election results, any decent American should reject a system in which close to 1/3 of the country's votes CAN NOT BE RECOUNTED. The fact that the major player in e-voting tech is Diebold a HUGE Bush contributor is secondary.
How can you have a democracy in which a huge chunk of votes, a deciding chunk of votes, MUST BE TAKEN ON FAITH? Make an argument for me, anyone, on why this is not a crisis?
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Diebold Source Code!!!
by ouranos (dailykos.com)
"Dr. Avi Rubin is currently Professor of Computer Science at John Hopkins University. He 'accidentally' got his hands on a copy of the Diebold software program--Diebold's source code--which runs their e-voting machines. Dr. Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up this software. One line in particular stood out over all the rest: #defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4" All commercial programs have provisions to be encrypted so as to protect them from having their contents read or changed by anyone not having the key... The line that staggered the Hopkins team was that the method used to encrypt the Diebold machines was a method called Digital Encryption Standard (DES), a code that was broken in 1997 and is NO LONGER USED by anyone to secure programs. F2654hd4 was the key to the encryption. Moreover, because the KEY was IN the source code, all Diebold machines would respond to the same key. Unlock one, you have then ALL unlocked. I can't believe there is a person alive who wouldn't understand the reason this was allowed to happen. This wasn't a mistake by any stretch of the imagination."