Ross Goldstein, the state's deputy elections administrator, said Maryland now uses version 4.6 and that the public should be confident that their votes are secure.
The disks contain "nothing that's being used in this election," Goldstein said.
Diebold marketing director Mark Radke said the company is investigating the chain of custody of the disks and is asking its testing companies to pull their logs.
"These disks contain codes used for testing purposes," Radke said. "They were shipped from the testing authority. Diebold was never in the chain of custody."
Older versions of Diebold's computer code have long been in public circulation, including the copy discovered by Rubin.
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But it makes a headline and fodder for the drive-by media.
The source code used for programming the system in the machine doesn't mean a thing. It doesn't really matter how many people know the code. The source code is compiled for runtime. There are many encryption programs available for which all source is in the public domain. Knowing the source code means nothing. The only thing this story proves is...people who don't learn some computer fundamentals can easily be provoked by others.
Indeed. Looking at two-year-old software of an active project is like looking at a photo album from the family vacation when you were six years old.