RE: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes

It is impossible for a company to be non-partisan. That is why it would
be nice to develop an open source solution. That would be non-partisan.
Having being created by democrats, republicans, anarchists, whoever
wanted to contribute. 

-JP

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Fitzgerald [mailto:bkfsec@sdf.lonestar.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:19 PM
To: vvaduva@dapsco.com
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com; Polazzo Justin; pressinfo@diebold.com
Subject: Re: Diebold Global Election Management System (GEMS) Backdoor
Account Allows Authenticated Users to Modify Votes

vvaduva@dapsco.com wrote:

> Well now you are getting assinine and political!  If that's the case, 
> why would I trust my democrat baker with making non-poisoned bread for 
> me?  The problem is technical not political!  e-voting is 
> CRAP...insecure, inaccurate.  Stick with what works, i.e. paper 
> ballots.  They are cheap, accountable and hard to fake.
>
>  
The problem is both technical and political.  The political impacts the
technical -- the technical aspect doesn't exist in a bubble.

Likewise, I wouldn't trust a voting machine that was created by a
company whose executives promised elections to democrats. 

I wasn't making a point about the party, I was making a point about the
appearance of partisanship.  Voting machine companies should be
inherently non-partisan. 

             -Barry