Olá,
Conforme noticia repassada pelo colega Benjamin Azevedo (abaixo), na semana que
vem serão efetuados Testes de Ataque Livre, ou Teste de Penetração, nas urnas
eletrõnicas fabricadas pela Diebold para o Estado da Califórnia como mais um
dos procedimentos de segurança eleitoral.
Já aqui no Brasil o TSE SISTEMATICAMENTE SE RECUSA A PERMITIR tal tipo de
teste. Em 2004 o TSE recusou dois pedidos de testes deste tipo.
Um pedido foi feito pelo PT para que o prof. Mads Radmussen pudesse testar o
sistema de embaralhamento de voto que, se quebrado, permitiria a identificação
dos votos dos eleitores pondo fim a inviolabilidade do voto no Brasil. O pedido
foi negado sob o argumento que não estava previsto na regulamentação de
fiscalização que o próprio TSE escrevera.
Outro pedido foi feito pelo PDT, para que o Eng. Márcio Teixeira pudesse tentar
burlar as defesas do sistema contra adulteração do software de apuração dos
votos nas urnas eletrônicas. Este pedido foi recusado com o surpreendente
argumento que o sistema possuia defesas que inviabilizavam qualquer ataque e,
portanto, não precisaria ser testado.
O pedido do PDT e proibido pelo TSE, é muito parecido com o teste que ocorrerá
na Califórnia inclusive porque 350 mil das 425 mil urnas-e brasileiras são
fabricadas pela mesma empresa Diebold.
[ ]s
Amilcar Brunazo Filho
www.votoseguro.org
EU SEI EM QUEM VOTEI.
ELES TAMBÉM.
MAS SÓ ELES SABEM QUEM RECEBEU O MEU VOTO.
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Assunto: [VotoEletronico] Hacker tentará ataque em maquina de votacao
na California
Data: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:15:12 -0200
De: Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aqui o TSE foge deste tipo de colaboracao, mas nos EUA o ataque é uma
forma de validacao,
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/25/BAG13FTR9E1.DTL&hw=Diebold&sn=001&sc=1000
San Francisco Chronicle <http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/>
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CALIFORNIA
Hacker to try to attack state voting machines
John Wildermuth, Chronicle Political Writer
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Friday, November 25, 2005
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A computer hacker will be trying to break into one of California's
electronic voting machines next week, with the full cooperation of the
secretary of state.
Harri Hursti, a computer security expert from Finland, will be trying to
demonstrate that voting machines made by *Diebold* Election Systems are
vulnerable to attacks by computer hackers seeking to manipulate the
results of an election.
"This is part of our security mission,'' said Nghia Nguyen Demovic, a
spokeswoman for the secretary of state's office. "We want to make sure
that every vote is counted and registered correctly.''
The stakes are high for *Diebold*, one of the nation's largest
manufacturers of electronic voting systems. The company is trying to get
its new voting system approved for use in California, the nation's
biggest market, but Secretary of State Bruce McPherson refused
certification after 20 percent of the new, printer-equipped voting
machines malfunctioned during a July test in San Joaquin County.
"The secretary said that performance wasn't good enough,'' Demovic said.
The new security test, tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, will play a
role in *Diebold*'s future certification efforts.
Last May, Hursti and another computer security expert tested a *Diebold*
system for the elections supervisor in Leon County, Fla. They quickly
broke into the system, changed the voting results and inserted a new
program that flashed the message "Are we having fun yet?" on the
computer screens.
"Granted the same access as an employee of our office, it was possible
to enter the computer, alter election results and exit the system
without any physical record of this action,'' said Ion Sancho, the
election supervisor, in a report on the county's Web site.
The California test will use a randomly selected voting machine from one
of the 17 counties that use a *Diebold* system -- either touch screen or
optical scan machines. The original plan for the test would have used a
machine provided by *Diebold*, something opposed by the state and the
critics of the company.
"We want to test a machine that's already been used in a California
election,'' said Jim March, an investigator for Black Box Voting, the
consumer group bringing in Hursti for the test. "We want to avoid a
so-called 'lab queen,' a voting machine specially rigged for the test.''
Black Box Voting and other groups have complained that the programs
loaded into the *Diebold* machines can be undetectably changed to
provide a specific election result. Officials of the company argue their
machines provide secure, accurate results.
Officials of the company did not return telephone calls Wednesday.
*Diebold* has been a popular target, for those worried about the
security of electronic voting and for Democrats complaining about the
company's links to the Republican Party.
In 2003, the head of *Diebold*'s parent company, a major backer of
President Bush, wrote a fund-raising letter to Republicans, saying he
was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the
president next year."
The company was trying to sell voting machines in Ohio at the time and
Democrats saw the letter as more than just the usual effort to raise
campaign cash. The complaints grew even louder when Bush edged
Democratic Sen. John Kerry in Ohio in the 2004 election marked by
widespread complaints in that state of alleged voting irregularities.
The company also has a checkered record in California. Problems with the
company's electronic voting system caused disruptions at 180 Alameda
County precincts during the March 2004 primary election. During the
October 2003 recall election, several thousand votes for Democratic Lt.
Gov. Cruz Bustamante in Alameda County were somehow electronically
transferred to Southern California Socialist John Burton.
In May 2004, then-Secretary of State Kevin Shelley yanked certification
of the *Diebold* machines in four counties and restricted their use in
10 other counties until their security and reliability could be improved.
The state has mandated that all electronic voting machines have a
paper-ballot backup to record votes by the June 2006 primary.
/E-mail John Wildermuth at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>./
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