Hacking the Diebold AccuVote-TS machine

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Research by Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ for full research, FAQ, and other info. The video shows a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote TS voting machine, in light of real election procedures, shows that it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks. A hacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates. A hacker could also create malicious code that spreads automatically and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities — a voting machine virus. Working demonstrations of these attacks are demonstrated. Mitigating these threats will require changes to the voting machines hardware and software and the adoption of more rigorous election procedures. Some Rights Reserved. These videos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b

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