Community | October 21, 2010 | 10 comments

Washington DC Experiments in Online Voting - Hack-a-palooza

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/18/AR2010101804529.html

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Not only did it take "University of Michigan professor J. Alex Halderman and his graduate students just 36 hours to hack and obtain almost total control of the system. They were able to change all the votes that had been cast, and they obtained the names and passwords of voters eligible to use the online system. Most chilling, as Mr. Halderman told a D.C. Council committee, was the discovery that computer users in Iran and China were also trying to infiltrate the system."

The enemy within, the enemy without.

The internet: good for arguing moot points, following sports, watching porn and buying shit. Not so good for decisions that affect the fates of nations........ yet.

And happy birthday Dizz. We truly do miss you.
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    Community,   Current Cultural Issues
  2. tags:
    Elections,  Voting,  Internet Security
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