{"id":2660,"date":"2010-01-03T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T13:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2010-01-03T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T13:07:04","slug":"repostvoting-machine-source-code-leak-shows-election-rigging-subroutines-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/03\/repostvoting-machine-source-code-leak-shows-election-rigging-subroutines-boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Voting machine source-code leak shows election-rigging subroutines? Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Voting machine source-code leak shows election-rigging subroutines?<br \/>\nSequouia, a company that makes many of the electronic voting machines used in the US and elsewhere, has inadvertently leaked much of the secret source-code that powers its systems. The first cut at analysis shows what looks like illegal election-rigging code (&#8220;code that appears to control or at least influence the logical flow of the election&#8221;) in the source.<br \/>\nSequoia blew it on a public records response. We (basically EDA) have election databases from Riverside County that Sequoia insisted on &#8220;redacting&#8221; first, for which we paid cold cash. They appear instead to have just vandalized the data as valid databases by stripping the MS-SQL header data off, assuming that would stop us cold.<br \/>\nThey were wrong.<br \/>\nThe Linux &#8220;strings&#8221; command was able to peel it apart. Nedit was able to digest 800meg text files. What was revealed was thousands of lines of MS-SQL source code that appears to control or at least influence the logical flow of the election, in violation of a bunch of clauses in the FEC voting system rulebook banning interpreted code, machine modified code and mandating hash checks of voting system code.<br \/>\nI&amp;apos;ve got it all organized for commentary and download in wiki form.<br \/>\nThis is the first time we can legally study a voting system&amp;apos;s innards without NDAs or court-ordered secrecy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sequoia Voting Systems hacks self in foot (via MeFi)<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/20\/voting-machine-sourc.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\">Voting machine source-code leak shows election-rigging subroutines? Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To the chagrin of friends from IT to the Academe etc. I&#8217;ve always been optimistic in the computerization of elections in the Philippines.\u00a0\u00a0 Articles like this gives me pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting machine source-code leak shows election-rigging subroutines? Sequouia, a company that makes many of the electronic voting machines used in the US and elsewhere, has inadvertently leaked much of the secret source-code that powers its systems. The first cut at analysis shows what looks like illegal election-rigging code (&#8220;code that appears to control or at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/03\/repostvoting-machine-source-code-leak-shows-election-rigging-subroutines-boing-boing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Voting machine source-code leak shows election-rigging subroutines? 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