More voting machine insecurities. You think your vote matters?
37 States use Diebold voting machines. This latest exploit is just another drop in the bucket, but it is a head turner. Do some research into voting machine failures, Diebold whistle blowers & electronic election rigging if you want to know more, but be warned.. you may loose your happy feel good outlook on humanity as a whole.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/09/28/0241201/man-in-the-middle-remote-attack-on-diebold-voting-machines
“[T]he Argonne team’s attack required no modification, reprogramming, or even knowledge, of the voting machine’s proprietary source code. … The team’s video demonstrates how inserting the inexpensive electronic device into the voting machine can offer a “bad guy” virtually complete control over the machine. A cheap remote control unit can enable access to the voting machine from up to half a mile away. … The video shows three different types of attack, each demonstrating how the intrusion developed by the team allows them to take complete control of the Diebold touch-screen voting machine. They were able to demonstrate a similar attack on a DRE system made by Sequoia Voting Systems as well.”