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The Case of the Diebold FTP Site |
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Dr. Doug Jones, University of Iowa, Computer Science Department
On Feb. 4, 2003, employees of Diebold Election Systems admitted that they had been using an insecure FTP server to exchange and update some part of Diebold's software. Bev Harris wrote this up in the on-line journal Scoop. This FTP server was taken offline on Jan 29, and it is alleged to have contained files with names like "rob-georgia.zip", large parts of GEMS (the Global Election Management System), and unknown other software. ...
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