changing the ROMs of a Nedap e-voting computer in 60 seconds

[douro20]

With one screwdriver and two chips...

Met een schroevendraaier en twee chips...

[Tala2n]

Where the welds ?

[trisky1234]

built to be hacked. may that be known.

[Ascii1971]

En dit zijn nederlandse stemcomputers. Ik had mooi me geld teruggevraagt als ik ierland was geweest. Die hebben 50 miljoen betaalt voor deze prut. Stelletje laaie lichters.

Ze hadden die dingen toch wel kunnen fixen met betere chips en gesealt door een notaris.

[N4ch007]

15 seconds less using an automatic screw driver :P

[Jejking]

With this speed they have loads of time to 'fix' everything for the next elections...

[FabienCL44]

j'les ai reconnu!!!..... LOL :D

[connortookey]

ne fun here

[kent4congress]

This example would require that someone is on the inside. The sad thing is almost every county is seeking poll workers for election day and none of people who are afraid of voter fraud ever apply. I'm not talking about some lame free poll watching post. I'm talking about actual paid jobs and these people spend all this time campaigning for fair elections and they wont take a paid job working at the polls. Go figure.

[brucevdk]

You're missing the point. These voting machines could have been modified long before the actual election took place. Precisely how would you verify if they had not been tampered with on election day?

[Darkuser1000]

LMAO! I saw a Bald Head!!

[Zuljiin]

haha this is so leet

[ralphredimix]

Now you just need to sneak three dudes into a voting booth!!! Time to bust out the 13 foot long trenchcoat!

[Taylor1320]

what is this video showing? im confuzzled lol

[BonifacijJ]

It shows how easy it is to fake any elections that use electronic voting machines

[ThePerfectPresident]

say no to e-voting

[CradLeRcker]

pwnt

[ursusarctosuk]

Is it me or did the government say that e-voting is flawless!?

[rednaxx]

Mit dem Ding wurden grad Wahlen in Hessen veranstaltet...

[sux0r1z0r]

verunstaltet, meinst du wohl ^^

[twopotatoesonecarrot]

oversight on all our gambling machines, but absolutly none for voting machines......

[sirsean12]

its better then having a king that no one can vote for!

[techforumz]

Umm, do any of you realize how easy it is to keep this stuff confidential and unhackable? It's called integration. You know, like the NOAC? Like a 256k Flash ROM (Enough for a midsized city's presidential elections) integrated with an 8086 MPU and about 512bytes of RAM, you can put a nice GUI and all that crap on a direct SCMA (single channel, multiple address) IRQ bus. But the whole point would be defeated if it stored backups in the RAM for any reason at all, in any way.

[jehst]

sad

[TofuTheGreat]

Gosh. That type of activity wouldn't be noticed in a polling place would it?

[rongvk]

E.g. Whomever is volunteering at the voting office or working in a storage area could just do it while others are off on their coffee brake.

[kukulcan12]

You are not being sarcastic are you, because if you are, this would not need to be done at any particular place, it could be done anywhere along the line...which is many places.

[OmnipotentEntity]

You can steal an election faster than you can steal a car... Am I the only one worried by this?

[kayanamasha]

no you arent. we had voting machines like this in france, and it's not a rumor; none of them were sealed.

our republican-neocons wons again.

[Entropy56]

Is that how Nixon won by a landslide?

[dannylinkers1]

You are crazy

Jullie (makers filmpje) zijn niet goed wijs/gek

[wvsn]

This is a Dutch or German voting machine branded Nedap, not used in USA elections. This movie was made to proof a point in a German lawsuit. You can read all about it: search Google for Blackbag Toool (right, triple 'o')

[xBitage]

This is Dutch, just know where youre talking albout, gee.. does the URL given in de description say something to you? ***.NL

[McArtRidge]

People making this computer malfunction suck! Almost the same as if you would disable the brakes of the prime-ministers carr. Get a life!

[alizta]

They did not manipulate a machine that was in use in an actual vote, they just proofed how extremely easy those things can be manipulated. They even wrote a chess Program for the Nedap voting computers.

Our government claims those machines are safe because it is forbidden to manipulate a vote. Yeah right... THAT worked in the US so far... and of course there is no crime on planet earth, because it is forbidden by law.

[mymarkx]

Two elections officials in Ohio are in jail for rigging an election. Election rigging isn't done by voters, it is done by elections officials and company technicians. They make the machines this easy to rig because they go into the warehouse before the election and rig hundreds of them at a time. And the voting public has no way to ever know it because the people who rig the elections are the ones who control access to the machines before and after the elections.

[dael4]

do a google on "cyber election hit squad" and find info on the RNC servers and their implication in changing tallies. It = about 125,000 hits

[dael4]

The RNC Servers are what really did the adjustments in the tallies.... forget the machines, though they really are part of the problem and really illegal because they have secret software which is against the dictates of the HAVA act, oh, the sponsor thereof is now in jail,, Bob Ney? remember him?

[psycodrew1]

but seriously a lock or something but this is probably an inside job and how did these people get a machine seriously i would like to know are you actually witnessing someone hacking these things and by the way all you people bashing bush remember he wasn't that crazy Intel he was re-elected before that most people supported him

Well thats my rant talk to me at psycodrew at rock dot com

[alizta]

They got those voting machines donated by a few sane communitys that actually recognized what a bunch of crap they are. It is not an inside job, the technology behind those machines is basically an early nineties homecomputer.

And yes there are locks on those things... and you can freely buy the suitable keys. Not that locks couldn't be picked anyway.

[kukulcan12]

I love it how some people think because there are actually locks on these things that is going to keep someone from tampering with them. What there tiny brains don't seem to understand is that it's not going to be any regular Joe braking into these things, it's going to be someone who knows what the hell their doing and is backed with BIG money.

[JoacinoDaGona]

you're right anyone who wants to manipulate the election has to be involved in the process. you dont need big money, an internet connection and a few bucks for programmingsoftware and -hardware are enough. Hell, you dont need to be an professionel programmer either. the programms used in those EPROMs are rather easy and could be done by studying some books.

[psycodrew1]

one word epoxy thats all it would take to keep people from removing them but they could have used tamper proof screws or even soldered it down but i know why they made them so easy to dissemble because they need to be able to be repaired quickly in time for elections

[Daemonolatry]

Oops sorry - that was meant to be a comment nealhead, not a standalone comment. my bad.

[Geeky907]

Ok, thats cool, there's not much physical security, but what about electronic security? before changing the roms can make a difference, you need NEW roms with NEW code on them.. where do you get code to start from?... dont know many voting places that will let you in twice... and if you tamper with a machine im betting they'll just blacklist it from the system, or they have them set up on some sort of access control list..

[Daemonolatry]

you hit it right on the head there, i think. if the numbers function the way, say, a mac address does, then the mismatched numbers could just prevent the thing from working at all

[JoacinoDaGona]

the problem is that the manunfactor didnt thought that far and didnt include such features. according to a dossier of the german CCC (not related to the KKK ;-)) the mechanical seals could be easily bypassed (or even replaced concidering that an insider will do the job). a pro pos insider, inyone who wants to corrupt the election would be involved in the process so he or she has access to the votingmachines.

[nealhead]

Ok, notice there is three people working on it, one with a screw driver. Now, by what I've seen, I don't see three people go in at once and make so much noise and nobody notices.

[Daemonolatry]

I think you're missing the point. It's impractical of course for anyone to do this on voting day. Anyone who attempts as such should probly be shot if just to filter the gene pool of such stupidity. And even if you did get in and change the ROM, that's really only the first part of your task if you plan on corrupting the vote system. This video demonstrates the potential danger of inside-job corruption, not general joe-shmoe dishonesty.

[poisomike87]

I bet that they could speed that up with an electric screwdriver.

I know that helps speed up regular computer work :)

[utubelover159]

Me and my team could do that little switch of ROM's in a little under 40 seconds, it is really simple.

e-mail me if you want to try

[godofdefire]

Bushes campaign for 2000 was a Blueprint for America. New world order anyone? How bout some verichip?

I think the world will grow stunted in captivity, but could it all be for the best?

[godofdefire]

A program was just released on the Discovery Times channel (bout the CIA) suggesting that Pres. Kennedy badmouthed the CIA, and that Bush senior helped to have him whacked. I don't know about all this, but it would suck if the best President we had was killed over oil and profit. Kennedy made a speech a couple of days before he was killed saying that there is a plot to foment the American people...

[nealhead]

Haha, Wikipedia isn't always right. It's posted by people like you who want to down talk Bush. These people are showing how Vulnerable they are, too bad they are guarded to where you can't get to them...

[macphile]

@nealhead

That's funny. I don't remember there being a guard inside the voting booth the last few times I've voted. He must've been wearing an invisibility cloak so I didn't know he was watching my votes.

[chris832]

wtf the roms are not secure... sounds like bush work to me...

[nglad1]

nice, i just feel so sneeky even watching it.......

[modrak]

Cool. Secure is much as it can be :D

[GrimResistance]

luckily he can only serve 2 terms

[bigmacattacks]

2 terms in a row, then he has to take at least 1 term off. Then he CAN run again.

[hack124x768]

Where the hell do you get that? There is a 10 year maximum time in office, 2 full terms, and a possible 2 years if you are a VP and the president dies.

[Saml01]

Considering the fact that stupid americans voted Bush into office, TWICE, maybe this is just what we need to prevent something like that from happening again.

[Daemonolatry]

Yeah seriously... it wouldn't surprise me one bit if something like actually reveals itself to be how the douche we have here now got elected. :P

Indeed, this video is really cool, but also unsettling.

[Steveg20001]

I resent that because I'm an American and didn't vote for the jerk. Secondly, I regret knowing that even if I defect to another country I'll still be considered an American.

[thepetecom]

Uh, wouldn't this provide at least the suggestion of proof that we DIDN'T elect him twice?

You really think the guys that designed these ballot machines didn't know full-well how NOT secure they are? I take a video like this as proof that we can't trust past results any more than we can trust future results without a serious change in tech.

[hack124x768]

Bush won on a paper recount by hand, that Kerry demanded. I don't think these machines being insecure could have changed that much. Besides, all the other hackers I know a very liberal, why hack a machine to vote conservative? It would seem odd for a group of people who want to move forward (and left) to want to cause a person who wants things to stay the same (the right) to be in office. Just a thought.

[thepetecom]

I hope you're right. However, people are people and money talks, regardless of party/social slant. Try googling Clint Curtis and see what you come up with. I'm not saying Bush isn't our rightful president (as "decided" in 2000 and in 2004), I'm just saying that we'll never know for sure and vids like this reinforce that concern. This isn't about politics--I don't care what Gore/Kerry wanted. I'm just after a system where EVER ballot is DEFINITELY counted--unlike the one we've got now.

[locketine]

Bush didn't win the proper paper recount in 2004, check wikipedia if you wish. plus a paper recount doesn't account for paperless voting machine errors. Also I know of quite a few very republican hacks that have gotten into the news recently so what you just said doesn't fit reality too well.

[rmadmin]

Wow, this thing is so uber secure. I'd trust it about as far as I can throw it.

[cafriend]

Damn...

[sublog1c]

Das wird die Wasserköpfe von Befürwortern auch nicht überzeugen. *seufz*