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E-Vote Software Leaked Online
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61014,00.html

By Kim Zetter
Oct. 29, 2003

Software used by an electronic voting system manufactured by Sequoia
Voting Systems has been left unprotected on a publicly available
server, raising concerns about the possibility of vote tampering in
future elections.

The software, made available at ftp.jaguar.net, is stored on an FTP
server owned by Jaguar Computer Systems, a firm that provides election
support to a California county. The software is used for placing
ballots on voting kiosks and for storing and tabulating results for
the Sequoia AVC Edge touch-screen system.

The security breach means that anyone with a minimal amount of
technical knowledge could see how the code works and potentially
exploit it. According to a computer programmer who discovered the
unprotected server, the files also contain Visual Basic script and
code for voting system databases that could allow someone to learn how
to rig voting results. The programmer spoke on condition of anonymity.

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[ . . . Peter Neumann, lead computer scientist at the Stanford Research
Institute, said the exposed code could allow someone to plant a Trojan
horse in the system's compiler -- the program that translates the code
for use by the computer -- that would be undetectable to anyone
reading the code.

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