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Sancho

(9,067 posts)
Fri Sep 27, 2019, 08:47 PM Sep 2019

Hackers find voting machines used throughout the US are vulnerable to attack

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/26/politics/hackers-voting-machines/index.html?no-st=1569631525

For the third straight year, elite hackers from around the world who spent a long weekend hacking into voting equipment have released a report detailing vulnerabilities in machines still in use across the country.

Each of the more than 100 machines the researchers looked at were vulnerable to at least some kind of attack, said Georgetown professor Matt Blaze, one of the Def Con Voting Village's organizers.
The report will be of particular concern to lawmakers going into next year's Presidential election.
"I'm going to get this in the hands in every member of the US Senate," said Oregon senator Ron Wyden, the most outspoken election security advocate in the Senate, as he introduced the Def Con Voting Village report.


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Hackers find voting machines used throughout the US are vulnerable to attack (Original Post) Sancho Sep 2019 OP
K&R diva77 Sep 2019 #1
This is one avenue for election fuckery no one is talking about on the media. BIG mistake. triron Sep 2019 #2
Ding ding ding ding. Wake up! triron Sep 2019 #3
paper for the voter, paper counted in front of the public Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2019 #4
It's a feature, not a vulnerability. hunter Sep 2019 #5

hunter

(38,309 posts)
5. It's a feature, not a vulnerability.
Sat Sep 28, 2019, 12:12 AM
Sep 2019

The U.S.A. has always had problems with free and fair elections.

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