On the Diebold Election Systems website you could find, until yesterday morning, the photo below of the little keys that open ALL of their e-voting machines. Could a hacker create a duplicate key from the Diebold website photo? Gee, I wonder…
Concerned citizen Ross Kinard of SploitCast decided to find out:
“I bought three blank keys from Ace. Then a drill vise and three cabinet locks that used a different type of key from Lowes. I hoped that the spacing and depths on the cabinet locks’ keys would be similar to those on the voting machine key. With some files I had I then made three keys to look like the key in the picture.”
Princeton researchers who last fall released a study detailing the vulnerability of the machines to software hacks confirmed that two of the three keys made by Ross opened the crackpot Diebold machines.