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| The Murderous Cop:
https://www.cnet.com/news/defcon-hackers-find-its-very-easy-to-break-voting-machines/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/07/30/hackers-defcon-conference-exploit-vulnerabilities-voting-machines/523639001/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hackers-break-into-voting-machines-defcon-las-vegas/ --- Quote from: cbs news ---Synack, a San Francisco security platform, discovered serious flaws with the WinVote machine months ahead of this weekend's convention. The team simply plugged in a mouse and keyboard and bypassed the voting software by clicking "control-alt-delete." "It's really just a matter of plugging your USB drive in for five seconds and the thing's completely compromised at that point," Synack co-founder Jay Kaplan told CNET. "To the point where you can get remote access. It's very simple." The Synack team also cracked the machine from a mobile application by installing a remote desktop program to it. In one case study, Synack found a Virginia poll worker hacked the machine to play Minesweeper. A hacker, who only identified himself as "Oyster," tried to crack a Diebold voting machine after another team had compromised it. "I hope that we find a load of vulnerabilities in these just so we can open it up to the public to see how serious the problem is," he told CNET. --- End quote --- jesus christ how insecure |
| Nix the Glaceon:
theres no loving way lmao |
| phflack:
I kind of thought they would build the voting machines from scratch and that way even plugging in a USB wouldn't do anything (even one of the killer/frying USBs) |
| Nonnel:
are you kidding me |
| Electrk.:
standard computer devices work on computers who would've thought |
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