More on Diebold GEMS
Wired News: Activists Find More E-Vote Flaws
A programmer wrote a 5 line script that changes vote totals in the Diebold e-voting Global Election Management System (GEMS).
Diebold says not to worry. The system wasn’t designed to be used that way. And anyway, “no one would risk manipulating votes in an election because it’s against the law and carries a heavy penalty.”
A computer scientist says that the security hole may not be intentional, but, “…the vulnerabilities do show incompetence and indicate that Diebold programmers simply don’t know how to design a secure system.”