On Jan 17, 10:22 pm, Robatoy wrote:
Don't be a fool by pointing at a supposed tinfoil hat. I'm not wearing
one.
There are 9 episodes...... Truly mind-boggling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzPXer7946E


Companies that sell movies on DVDs have the option of
including a 'regional code' on the DVD. DVD players also
have a regional code embedded in their firmware. Typically
the regional code in a DVD player can be changed to play
DVDs with a different regional code--but only five times.
After the fifth change the code is 'locked' in on the DVD
player and can only be changed by replacing a chip.

It is not possible to 'hack' a locked DVD player using code
embedded on a DVD, or even through the communications
interface used to control the DVD player or stream the
data.

But it is possible to hack many voting machines using code
embedded on the flash card inserted into the machine to record
votes.

IOW, the regional code protection on a typical DVD player is
MORE secure than the essential software on many of our
voting machines!

Were it my job to design a voting machine the first design
decision I would make would be to put the software on an
EPROM so that it could not be hacked without physically
removing the chip from the machine. People smarter than
I, and there are plenty of them, could probably come up
with less expensive intrinsicly secure methods.

This leaves me concluding that incompetence alone is
not sufficient to explain why voting machines that can
be hacked by malware embedded on the flash cards are
being used. It is so easy and straightforward to incorporate
intrisic security into such a device that I have to conclude
that an instrinsicly secure design was deliberately rejected
during development.

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FF