Mediocre Technical Ability Required

Help wanted. Work on voting machine security for Diebold [who will not rest until it has "measurably impacted the businesses of our customers and delighted their customers"]. Wait a minute. Whose customers are you delighting? AP (11.25.05):

"A computer hacker will try to break into one of California's electronic voting machines as part of a security test initiated by the state.

Harri Hursti, a computer security expert from Finland, has been given the go-ahead by Secretary of State Bruce McPherson to attempt to infiltrate one of the voting machines made by Diebold Election Systems next week."

Expert to try to hack into electronic voting machines as part of test

"After a test in July in San Joaquin County, the state refused to certify Diebold's new, printer-equipped voting machines after 20 percent of the machines malfunctioned."

"Hursti will try to demonstrate that machines made by Diebold are vulnerable to hacker attacks and can be used to manipulate the results of an election."

So far, Harri's easily busted Diebold machines in both Arizona and Florida. Harri found that cracking open a Diebold machine "is an exceptionally flexible, one-man exploit requiring only a few hundred dollars, mediocre technical ability and modest persuasive skills (or, in lieu of persuasive skills, inside access)."

Surprisingly enough, Diebold disagrees.