Why do Diebolds Touch-Screen Voting Machines Have Built-In Wireless Infrared Data Transfer Ports?
IrDA Protocol Can ‘Totally Compromise System’ Without Detection, Warns Federal Voting Standards Website So far, no state or federal authority — to our knowledge — has dealt with this alarming security threat. With all the recent discussion of California Sec. of State Bruce McPherson’s mind-blowing about-face re-certification of Diebold — against state law, we hasten to add — this may be a good time to point out one small item that we’ve been meaning to mention for a while. McPherson’s silly “conditions” for re-certification of Diebold in California require a few much-less-than-adequate knee-jerk “safe guards” towards protection of the handling of the hackable memory cards in Diebold’s voting machines. More below the fold. But those “safe guards,” including seals placed on memory cards prior to Election Day to keep them from being removed from the machine (never mind that such seals have been pealed off without tearing in the past) do little to keep the cards themselves from being m
