Diebold Fails Test

From Wired News. A test found the machines ridiculously easy to hack. $Q: The hack Thompson and Hursti performed involves a memory card that's inserted in the Diebold machines to record votes as officials scan ballots. According to Thompson, data on the cards isn't encrypted or secured with passwords. Anyone with programming skills and access to the cards -- such as a county elections technical administrator, a savvy poll worker or a voting company employee -- can alter the data using a laptop and card reader. In addition, other electronic voting machines may be suspect according to Thompson, a computer science professor. In other news, Election 2006 is rapidly approaching...