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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDEFCON Conference To Target Voting Machines - Politico
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Hackers will target American voting machinesas a public service, to prove how vulnerable they are.
When over 25,000 of them descend on Caesars Palace in Las Vegas at the end of July for DEFCON, the worlds largest hacking conference, organizers are planning to have waiting what they call a village of different opportunities to test how easily voting machines can be manipulated.
Some will let people go after the network software remotely, some will be broken apart to let people dig into the hardware, and some will be set up to see how a prepared hacker could fiddle with individual machines on site in a polling place through a combination of physical and virtual attacks.
With all the attention on Russias apparent attempts to meddle in American electionsformer President Barack Obama and aides have made many accusations toward Moscow, but insisted that theres no evidence of actual vote tamperingvoting machines were an obvious next target, said DEFCON founder Jeff Moss.
Imagine, he said, what a concerted effort out of Russia or anywhere else could do.
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DEFCON Conference To Target Voting Machines - Politico (Original Post)
Jimbo101
May 2017
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Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)1. ypu want to make a statement wait till election time and throw the election
to the dems . make every vote go dem
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)2. Russia has been planning this for years...
https://www.rt.com/usa/voting-machine-election-hack-088/
Millions of Americans are already waiting for hours outside of polling places to vote for the next president of the United States. All of that might not matter though, as some security pros say the entire election can be rigged all too easily.
Millions of Americans are already waiting for hours outside of polling places to vote for the next president of the United States. All of that might not matter though, as some security pros say the entire election can be rigged all too easily.
Nictuku
(3,570 posts)3. I've thought for a very long time....
That /We/ have better hackers.
It is one sure way to be rid of unsecure (blackbox) voting machines, which has been on my radar since 2004.
Amaryllis
(9,523 posts)4. This is great news. Hope Dems pay attention.
Best_man23
(4,887 posts)5. K&Ring to Keep it Fresh
We need to keep an eye on this.
Also, online Cybersecurity magazine SC Media covered this story. The White and Gray hats at DEFCON will not play nice going after these voting machines.
https://www.scmagazine.com/report-defcon-2017-to-feature-election-hacking-exhibition/article/664072/