Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:40:43 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: clearing up the genesis of the Diebold memo's... To: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Gordon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dave,
For the record, the Diebold memos were, in fact, stolen by a hacker around March of 2003... the downloading of publicly-available code by Bev Harris was a separate incident. (and was the source of the code analyzed by Avi Rubin's JHU/Rice team) -Joe
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Diebold web sites go down, after 2nd ftp site security is breached
Friday, August 8, 2003 By Bev Harris blackboxvoting.org
Aug 8, 2003 1:20 a.m. -- Perhaps for a long-overdue security upgrade? Diebold's main web site and it's voting machine web site have both been taken down, probably for maintenance. And it's no wonder: Aug 7 Wired News[1] revealed new and embarrassing security problems.
[1] http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59925,00.html
"Following an embarrassing leak of its proprietary software over a file transfer protocol site last January, the inner workings of Diebold Election Systems have again been laid bare.
"A hacker has come forward with evidence that he broke the security of a private Web server operated by the embattled e-vote vendor, and made off last spring with Diebold's internal discussion-list archives, a software bug database and more software.
"There is no sane reason to put the corporate jewels on an Internet-facing server. They were basically asking to be hacked," said Jeff Stutzman, CEO of ZNQ3, a provider of information security services. "This is the kind of behavior you expect of a startup company that's only concerned about selling their first product."
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