| It gets scarier. The best minds in the computer-security world contend that the voting terminals can't be trusted. Listen, for example, to Avi Rubin, a computer-security expert and professor at Johns Hopkins University who was slipped a copy of Diebold's source code earlier this year. After he and his students examined it, he concluded that the protections against fraud and tampering were strictly amateur hour. Anyone in my basic security classes would have done better,. he says. The cryptography was weak and poorly implemented, and the smart-card system that supposedly increased security actually created new vulnerabilities. Rubin's paper concluded that the Diebold system was far below even the most minimal security standards. Naturally, Diebold disagrees with Rubin. .We're very confident of accuracy and security in our system,. says director of Diebold Election Systems Mark Radke. | | An MSNBC link - http://search.msn.com/results.asp |
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