They lied!!! I saw this segment!!! Diebold had on an engineer that had a machine and stated that the new firmware they use in the machines now, secures holes in previous software versions. They have created safety valves that open up if certain watermarks are not present in the firmware upload. Any attempt at tampering with the firmware will render the machine useless, but not before making a mirror file of the original votes logged.
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How were they deceptive? I'll admit that at the time the report was written, they may have underplayed the fact that attacking the machine requires physically opening it. Given, however, that the machine can be opened with a mini-bar key, that doesn't seem like much of an omission by the researchers.
Certainly Diebold claims that the security holes are fixed, but from what I can tell they are not fixed in any way that would prevent someone with inside knowledge from hacking the machines in such a way as to fake vote totals and then remove all trace of the hack.
There are some simple principles that can and should be applied that would make an attack very difficult even by someone with full inside knowledge. So far as I can tell, Diebold has made no effort to make their machines secure against insider attacks. Why?