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posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 14 2018, @02:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the starting-to-get-attention-now dept.

Another item from Def Con 26, which ended the other day, an 11-year-old was easily able to change tallies on real electronic voting equipment within minutes. These machines are designed not to leave any evidence when tampering happens so it was useful that there were many witnesses present for her demo.

Election hackers [sic] have spent years trying to bring attention to flaws in election equipment. But with the world finally watching at DEFCON, the world's largest hacker conference, they have a new struggle: pointing out flaws without causing the public to doubt that their vote will count.

This weekend saw the 26th annual DEFCON gathering. It was the second time the convention had featured a Voting Village, where organizers set up decommissioned election equipment and watch hackers [sic] find creative and alarming ways to break in. Last year, conference attendees found new vulnerabilities for all five voting machines and a single e-poll book of registered voters over the course of the weekend, catching the attention of both senators introducing legislation and the general public. This year's Voting Village was bigger in every way, with equipment ranging from voting machines to tabulators to smart card readers, all currently in use in the US.

In a room set aside for kid hackers [sic], an 11-year-old girl hacked a replica of the Florida secretary of state's website within 10 minutes — and changed the results.

Earlier on SN:
Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct
South Carolina's 13k Electronic Voting Machines Vulnerable, Unreliable
Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @11:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @11:32AM (#721739)

    > It is predominantly one side and one side only. Sure, you'll find crooked politicians in both parties, and in some local races you'll find cheating on either side, but when taken as a whole, there is one party that has made cheating a part of its core strategy, and another that has not. And in case it isn't clear, it's the party that lies an order of magnitude more often than the other (easily checked on numerous fact-checking sites which one, but in case you're at all confused, it's the party that used these techniques to install two presidents this century, neither of them African American).

    What I found really interesting, is reading through your post, I could not tell which party you were on about until you brought race into it. If you remove your last line about race, from my vantage point both your parties fit the bill, because quite frankly, both of them are as bent as corkscrews.

    This "my party is better than your party" bullshit is the reason you lot are in this political mess right now. That and the fact you generally never vote for third parties, calling them "throwaway votes" and the like, which is the wrong attitude to have.

    Just my 0.02c