{"id":8790,"date":"2011-09-28T20:34:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T03:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8790"},"modified":"2013-11-27T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:39:42","slug":"brad-on-kpfk-interview-with-argonne-labs-roger-johnston-on-his-26-remote-man-in-the-middle-diebold-e-vote-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8790","title":{"rendered":"Brad on KPFK: Interview with Argonne Lab’s Roger Johnston on His $26 Remote ‘Man-in-the-Middle’ Diebold E-Vote Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon on my Pacifica Radio show on KPFK<\/a> here in Los Angeles (and up and down the West Coast) I interviewed Dr. Roger Johnston of Argonne National Lab’s Vulnerability Assessment Team on their $26 “Man-in-the-Middle” attack on a Diebold touch-screen voting system as I reported yesterday in my exclusive at Salon<\/a> (and here at The BRAD BLOG<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

While yesterday’s reports included information on the team’s previous, similar-ish hack of a Sequoia touch-screen system<\/a>, and the fact they feel they could do the same with most other e-voting systems, among the interesting new points raised during our discussion on KPFK today is that Johnston believes they could use a similar method to manipulate the vote count on a paper-ballot based optical-scan system<\/i> as well!<\/p>\n

So, in other words, the low-rent attack Argonne has demonstrated — requiring no knowledge of the voting system software, $10 to $26 in off-the-shelf computer parts, and little more than an 8th grade computer lab education — could also be implemented not just on touch-screen e-voting systems, with or without a so-called “paper trail,” but also on the paper ballot op-scanners used to count the majority of votes that will be cast in the U.S. in next year’s Presidential election.<\/p>\n

(And if you’re now wondering: “Well, what the hell should<\/i> we be using to tabulate our elections?!” I’ll refer you to this “Democracy’s Gold Standard” special comment of mine<\/a>, as taken from a recent Mike Malloy Show<\/i> which I posted a few months ago.)<\/p>\n

Here’s my interview with Dr. Johnston today…<\/p>\n

Download MP3<\/a> or listen online here [appx 28 mins]..
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P.S.<\/b> There’s been a fair bit of follow-up coverage of my Salon article yesterday, here’s a few of the better reports I’ve seen, at The Register<\/em><\/a>, ComputerWorld<\/em><\/a>, CNET<\/a> and MSNBC.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Note: Of the media outlets listed above, only CNET got the ownership of Diebold voting equipment correct in their reports. Both The Register<\/em> and ComputerWorld<\/em> incorrectly report that ES&S now has ownership of what had been Diebold Election Systems, Inc. In fact, while ES&S, the world’s largest e-voting company, did purchase the company<\/a> (that some refer to as DESI, but I do not, for personal reasons) in late 2009, the DoJ ordered them to sell it off<\/a> due to anti-trust concerns. It was then purchased by Canadian firm Dominion Voting, though ES&S was allowed to retain a fair number of the contracts from Diebold jurisdictions that preferred to stay with ES&S. So while Dominion officially<\/em> owns what was Diebold’s election division, ES&S still maintains and services many Diebold machines as well. Dominion also took over Sequoia — and lied about it<\/a> — shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

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