RE: Dutch govt scraps insecure voting machine

["Paul Tiger" <tigerp@xxxxxxxxx>]

I come back to the same topic that I have done now for the past two years.

In the early 80s I worked on a tempest project at NBI. We sold word
processors to the Pentagon. I spent months working in a faraday cage ironing
out bugs in the electro-mechanical designs of the boxes. When all was said
and done you couldn't read jack from a few feet away.
However, I made a bet with my cohorts that I could scramble all the data and
make the things useless. They took the bet and I won lunch for a month. I
used an old Motorola HT440 packset and a cigarette pack sized linear
amplifier. From about ten feet away inside of my parka I keyed up and wacked
the data to hell in a handbasket.

Electronic voting is subject to failure from high energy radio frequency
pulse. Bye-bye data, bye-bye votes. Who needs hackers when you can wipe out
an election?

paul



-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Shnelvar [mailto:ralphs@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:38 PM
To: attendees; cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: tigerp@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Dutch govt scraps insecure voting machine

Oh my god!  How stupid of me!

In the late 80's ago I was tangentially involved with the NSA trying to get
them to buy some of my voice scrambling hardware.  I still have some of
those flyers just for old times sake.

Part of the reason that I didn't succeed was that the machine was not
"Tempest secure".  It turns out that it was very easy to spy on someone's
crt screen from a distance.

I wonder if the Dutch were using CRTs instead of flat panels.  And that then
leads to the question if it is possible to read a flat panel the same way
that a CRT could be read.

Paul Tiger, do you know?  Anyone else know?

Ralph


On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:51:40 -0700, you wrote:

>Government Renewal Minister Atzo Nicolai said the move was necessary after
>an investigation found the machines made by Sdu NV emitted radio signals
>that a technology-savvy spy could use to peek at a voters' choices from a
>distance of up to several dozen meters (yards).


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