Diebold: Incredibly stupid yet again

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Wednesday, January 24. 2007

Diebold: Incredibly stupid yet again

Diebold's helpfully provided picture of their voting machine key, allowing anyone to make their own copy.

As we learned back in 2003, Diebold in its infinite wisdom decided that to save money, it would install identical locks with identical keys on all of its voting machines (Imagine the door to every ATM in America with the same key). But never you worry, because they only give that key to "authorized" people, which seems to mean anyone with access to their web site, a key blank, a file and a little patience.

jhalderm posted this video of the results on YouTube.

Remember, these are the same people safeguarding your money and your financial transactions at most banks in America.

Posted by David Allen in Diebold Follies at 10:36 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Does anybody know how long this has been up?

#1 Michael Young on 2007-01-26 12:20 (Reply)

Still is, as far I can tell

#1.1 David Allen on 2007-02-01 15:43 (Reply)

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