On the subject of hackers and honey pots

Tuesday Dec 30, 2003
— Bev Harris

Supposedly...
"VoteHere Inc. confirmed Monday that U.S. authorities are investigating a break-in of its computers months ago, when someone roamed its internal computer network. The intruder accessed internal documents and may have copied sensitive software blueprints that the company planned eventually to disclose publicly."

VoteHere story

First, the product VoteHere offers is encryption to "protect" our votes. They cut a deal with Sequoia to provide it. Now, they tell us they were "hacked." Maybe.

But what you might not know is that the VoteHere source code has been used in entrapment attempts. Specifically, with me, and I documented the entrapment effort at the time.

There are a number of things about this story that don't smell right. For one thing, they seem to be trying to link it to the Diebold files. For those of you who are new here, there were two sets of Diebold files, an FTP site which was open to the public and sat on the Web for six years, which contained program files and other items, and memos, which were obtained with an employee ID number and then leaked. In this story, Jim Adler seems to be saying the "VoteHere hacker" may be the same person who snagged the Diebold files.

But the FTP site wasn't hacked, it was sitting there. Look in any user manual and you'll see the address. No hacking involved, sorry.

The memos weren't hacked either, they were obtained by someone with inside access, and leaked.

I've had dealings with both the Diebold memo leaker and this supposed "VoteHere" hacker. The second person is NOT the same as the first. I am dead-certain of this.

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