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(OP) User ID: 27088294 United States 11/08/2012 04:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. One more quote from the report. At Election Central the results can be imported into ERM using either the Master PEBs or the Audit Image on the CF cards. Pg 49: We found fundamental security deficiencies throughout the ES&S Unity EMS, iVotronic DRE and M100 optical scanner software and hardware. Virtually every mechanism for assuring the integrity of precinct results and for protecting the back-end tallying system can be circumvented. Election results can be tampered with in the ES&S system by exploiting any of a number of different vulnerabilities we discovered. The normal access provided to individual precinct poll workers (and in some cases to voters themselves) is sufficient to conduct attacks that alter county-wide election results and that, in some cases, cannot be detected or recovered from through audits or recounts Pg 49-50: 6.1 Ineffective Access Control The firmware and configuration of the ES&S precinct hardware can be easily tampered with in the field. Virtually every piece of critical data at a precinct – including precinct vote tallies, equipment configuration and equipment firmware – can be compromised through exposed interfaces, without knowledge of passwords and without the use of any specialized proprietary hardware. Pg 50: 6.1.1 iVotronic passwords and PEB-based access controls Access to the iVotronic DRE configuration is protected by several hardware and password mechanisms, all of which can be defeated through apparently routine poll worker (and in some cases voter) access. [link to www.bbvforums.org] Last Edited by Chrit on 11/08/2012 05:00 PM I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
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(OP) User ID: 27088294 United States 11/08/2012 04:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. They openly admit they have been hacked and a single machine can change an entire election result with zero way to trace it!! But they keep them in the field. I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
Chrit
(OP) User ID: 27088294 United States 11/08/2012 06:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. Pg 54: 6.3.1 iVotronic firmware The iVotronic terminal is based on an Intel 80386 embedded computer processor controlled by firmware stored on an internal flash memory chip. The firmware is designed to be field-updated through an administrative menu function, with new firmware loaded though the terminal's CF card interface. Four security mechanisms are intended to protect against unauthorized firmware loading: • Access to the firmware update menu function requires a supervisor (or QA) PEB. • A 6-8 character password is required to enable firmware update. • The firmware is loaded through the CF card interface, which can be protected by a sealed sliding cover. • The firmware update function is disabled while the polls are open. Unfortunately, these mechanisms are ineffective. We found several practical ways for an attacker to bypass each of these security mechanisms and successfully replace or alter the iVotronic firmware, without knowledge of any passwords or secret election parameters, possession of a PEB, or breaking any seals. We found ways to carry out these attacks even when the polls are open. It is possible, for example, for a voter (with no inside assistance) to load new firmware into an iVotronic after he or she is finished voting. [link to www.bbvdocs.org] Last Edited by Chrit on 11/08/2012 06:22 PM I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
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(OP) User ID: 27088294 United States 11/08/2012 06:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. Funny part I am quoting the commissioned government study it self! But you still have newspapers trying to say it is safe. Read this BS... Article: In order to put to bed conspiracy theories about a Big Brother government hacking into the iVotronic Touch Screen Voting System and changing votes, the Winfield Daily Courier asked Cowley County Clerk Karen Defore how the system works. [link to m.winfieldcourier.com] What conspiracy theory? This is an official commissioned study! Where they admit the machines were acutely hacked on more than one occasion and the hack is so effective it cannot always be traced. The PEB can rewrite the flash drive in the machine and the machines hard drive and one single PEB can even rewrite the central Election Management System entire vote tally!!! And is easily duplicated in tests without any passwords being used! I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
Chrit
(OP) User ID: 27088294 United States 11/08/2012 06:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. Official project everest study link from the goverment site. [link to www.sos.state.oh.us] I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
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(OP) User ID: 27088294 United States 11/08/2012 10:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. Nov 6th 2012 Snip: U.S. District Judge Gregory Frost held an evidentiary hearing on the injunction request, after which he said he’d rule later today. In court, Fitrakis’s lawyer asked the judge to consider the alternative remedy of a sample hand-count of ballots in counties where the software is being used. The complaint contains no direct statement of knowledge as to the existence of the alleged electronic back door. ‘Ridiculous’ Allegations Matt McClellan, a spokesman for Husted, rejected the allegations as “ridiculous.” “We did not touch, update, patch or do anything to the tabulation systems or the voting machines,” McClellan said yesterday in a phone interview. “There’s no vulnerability to the system whatsoever.” McClellan said a “reporting tool” was installed that is intended to ease the reporting of results tonight. Election Systems & Software called the case “frivolous and without merit,” in an e-mailed statement, saying it was filed “with the sole intent of undermining voter confidence.” “We are confident that the pending legal proceedings will find the basis of this claim to be false,” the company said [link to www.bloomberg.com] Last Edited by Chrit on 11/08/2012 10:30 PM I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
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(OP) User ID: 27088294 United States 11/12/2012 10:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. It has gotten more interesting in the last 48 hours. Has the Ballot Bot has spoken? Or is something is brewing. I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
Chrit
(OP) User ID: 27088294 United States 11/13/2012 01:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. Programmer under oath I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 19070944 United States 03/13/2013 10:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. it's obvious electronic voting machines are a tool of the controlling 1%. Yet no political group is taking on the task of going back to hand count. Something smells here...... . |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 34713934 United States 03/13/2013 01:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. We've already known about this Hence the huge outrage when the voting machines were first introduced (not that the American people actually did anything about it, but still). |
Chrit
(OP) User ID: 27088294 United States 03/13/2013 02:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. We've already known about this Quoting: Anonymous Coward 34713934 Hence the huge outrage when the voting machines were first introduced (not that the American people actually did anything about it, but still). It’s an old thread, but glad it got bumped. Both sides believe they are in control and can manipulate the system in their favor; so neither side freaks out about this. Sadly the truth is the real people in power are not the ones we voted in or out of office. Either way we truly need to go back to paper ballots. When you see 119% voter turnout in some precincts and areas where not a single voter out of thousands voted for one side or the other, we know how it was done and on what machines. Everyone always looks at the big issues, what scares me even more are the little issues like votes on new taxes & the manipulation of revenue generation. I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 19070944 United States 03/15/2013 10:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. 1. Take the profit out of war. 2. Open the books of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) 3. Only hand count voting in all elections . |
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(OP) User ID: 27088294 United States 11/06/2013 07:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: iVotronic voting machines used in PA and other states have a known hack that can change every vote in the central election system. Just need to manipulate a very small % of the vote to change the elections when they are this close. Read that second post close, it says it all. The things need banned and destroyed. On top of all this, here is another little gem to add to the treasure trove of info. Thread: Diebold turns themselves in for bribery in foreign countries, agrees to pay 48+ million. I'm only human, it's my biggest flaw. We must all realize a sink a chair and a pillow are all luxuries of home and a soldiers helmet takes the place of all three. |