[LINK] US voting machines - problems already

brd at iimetro.com.au brd at iimetro.com.au
Wed Nov 1 11:14:41 AEDT 2006


I doubt that anyone could hack into a system through a CRT. They could 
eavesdrop
but it's an output device and so it's like trying to change a word document by
writing on the computer screen - notwithstanding jokes about [pick a group you
want to insult] word processing operators and whiteout.

Quoting Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net>:

> That'd be?:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/31/dutch_votingmachines_inadequate/
>
> It doesn't mention tempest though.  It appears to be some kind of  
> active hacking through wireless.  These days CRT screens are much  
> more vulnerable to van eck and optical tempest.  LCD screens can  
> probably be shielded fairly simply.
>
>
> On 2006/Nov/01, at 10:14 AM, Martin Barry wrote:
>
>> $quoted_author = "Howard Lowndes" ;
>>>
>>> There's also a story, I think at The Register, that the Dutch have
>>> banned them because the screen radiation can be read at a distance.
>>> Think TV detector vans in the UK and the Tempest standard.  I  think the
>>> radiation is called super heterodyne radiation.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
>>
>> "...is the process of eavesdropping on the contents of a CRT or LCD  display
>> by detecting its electromagnetic emissions."
>>
>> cheers
>> marty
>>
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>> Matt S Trout:	Not right, but "a silence of ninjas" appeals to me  somehow.
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>> Tanuki:		Ah, the old argument that sometimes the best way to truly  hide
>> 		something is to put it where it will be obvious.
>> 		From now on this will be known as "Security by Blatancy"
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>> alt.sysadmin.recovery usenet thread - start at <LOd8IKA8msYBFw 
>> $v at demon.co.uk>
>
> Awesome.
>
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