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posted by mrpg on Sunday September 10 2017, @04:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-a-berliner-but-I'm-worried dept.

Proprietary Software Used In German Elections Trivial To Hack, Say CCC Researchers

Security researchers from the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) have discovered that the software used to capture, aggregate, and tabulate the votes in many German elections had multiple vulnerabilities, exposing it to trivial potential attacks.

The proprietary software, called PC-Wahl, has been used to record, analyze, and present election data in national, state, and municipal elections for decades. The CCC hackers argued that the security holes are severe enough that they could jeopardize the trust in the final results of the upcoming parliamentary election (unless the security flaws are patched by then).

Also at Chaos Computer Club: Software to capture votes in upcoming national election is insecure.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @08:02PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 10 2017, @08:02PM (#566011)

    See Canada for an example.

    ...and get rid of systems with first-past-the-post "winners" who haven't gotten a majority.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 10 2017, @08:08PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday September 10 2017, @08:08PM (#566013) Homepage

    Yeah, abolish that damned electoral college and bring in illegal welfare voters by the boatload. That surely doesn't violate the spirit of the laws outlining the American political process! That will show those capitalist dogs! Viva la Revolucion, comrade*!

    * Che Guevara was racist and considered Blacks to be subhuman† . Perhaps all those Latino protestors in Che shirts and berets didn't get the memo.

    † H.P. Lovecraft was an anti-Semite. I wonder if he became one before or after he married a Jewish woman?

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Sunday September 10 2017, @08:28PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Sunday September 10 2017, @08:28PM (#566017)

      I have to say, I find it fascinating that your brain jumps from "Run elections like Canada" to "illegal welfare voters" and "some famous people were racist". Neither me nor the AC here mentioned anything about racial anything.

      --
      The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday September 10 2017, @09:38PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday September 10 2017, @09:38PM (#566040) Homepage Journal

    You're so right about the machines! Germany had fantastic elections before they brought in the cyber, before they did their elections with cyber. They elected a very good man. By a tremendous majority. 🇺🇸

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @03:11AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 11 2017, @03:11AM (#566107)

    How the hell can you bring up Canada?! They don't even have a football team!