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Defcon hackers find it's very easy to break voting machines
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.
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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