Matt Blaze: California voting systems code review now released
Keeping in the entire “hacker” theme, I read today on Bruce Schneier’s blog that code reviews of three voting machines that are proposed for use in California elections has been released. I found that (not surprisingly) someone that I knew had worked on one of them, and now that the report is published, he is free to talk (and blog) about it.
Matt Blaze: California voting systems code review now released
The problems we found in the code were far more pervasive, and much more easily exploitable, than I had ever imagined they would be.
I haven’t read the final reviews, but right now, security for voting machines seems to be a serious problem.
Matt exemplifies the best of the kind of hacker that I mentioned in my previous post, and here is participating in a project of monumental importance. At stake is literally the trust of the American people in the integrity of their democracy. It would be easy to put this control into the hands of a few companies who make millions of dollars selling voting machines, but as the reports that are coming out of this review indicate, they simply have not done a reasonable job of protecting the integrity of our democratic process, despite their assurances that exploits of such systems are impossible.
I’ll probably have some downtime next week, and will try to read more of the reports.
[tags]Security,California Voting Machines[/tags]