Investigator Finds IRAN And CHINA Trying To BREAK INTO Capital's Internet VOTING System

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Startling testimony offered by the U. of Michigan computer science professor whose team penetrated D.C.'s 'pilot program' server for what was to have been a live election beginning in just days...


A University of Michigan computer scientist and his team were not the only ones attempting to hack the Internet Vote scheme that Washington D.C. had planned to roll out for actual use with military and overseas voters in this November's mid-term election.


According to testimony given to a D.C. City Council committee last Friday by J. Alex Halderman, asst. professor of electrical engineering and computer science at University of Michigan, hackers from Iran and China were also attempting to access the very same network infrastructure, even as his own team of students had successfully done so, taking over the entirety of the Internet Voting system which had been opened for a first-of-its-kind live test.

details of what had already been disclosed about Halderman's startling hack prior to last Friday's hearing.]


"While we were in control of these systems we observed other attack attempts originating from computers in Iran and China," Halderman testified. "These attackers were attempting to guess the same master password that we did. And since it was only four letters long, they would likely have soon succeeded."


In his stunning public testimony --- before a single member of the D.C. Board of Ethics and Elections (BoEE), and a nearly empty chamber --- Halderman explained how the team had, by the time they discovered their fellow intruders, already gained complete control of the system, it's encryption key and its passwords. The system was developed as part of an Internet Voting pilot program with the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation.


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[Taverner]

1. They should deactivate every voting maching for this election

Until the scope is determined, and the necessary cleanings have taken place.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Are these the furriners who are funding the Republicons?

and their damned anti-American Chamber of Republicon Commerce?

Ptoooey...

[Warpy]

6. I understand the bulk of the foreign money

is coming from India, at least according to the sketchy information available now.

We have to start impeaching USSC (in)justices who are against the sovereign interest of this country. Allowing the influx of anonymous and unlimited cash from enemies as well as friends into the election process is pretty good proof of treason, if you ask me (and yeah, nobody did).

[formercia]

7. India could just be a cutout to obscure the true sources of the funding.

I suspect the money that was seized from the Vatican Bank was heading for the Chamber of Commerce. It was being laundered through other banks to obscure the source.

[Warpy]

10. I wouldn't be at all surprised

and nobody seems to care that our country is being stolen from us by hostile governments.

They just yawn and wonder what DWTS is going to be like this week.

[SpiralHawk]

9. Ahh, I see, Republicons grub anti-American payola money bucks from India

but - as overpaid chickenhawk Republicon Glenn Beck himself has pointed out, India begins with the letter 'I' -- and so does Iran.

I'm not saying that means radical Iran Muslin Terrarists are funding the Republicon Party or the Republicon Chamber of Commerce, but anyone with a 1/2 of a brainpan can put the putzle together for itself.

Know what I mean?

[msongs]

3. paper ballots hand counted in public at the precinct - evote = fraud nt

[movonne]

4. I don't think we should be using computers at all...corporations have

too much authority over our voting...

[Segami]

5. Casting the ' secret ballot ' will disappear just like the 8 track tape deck all in the name of

progress so they say.

[annabanana]

8. Kicking for a story that SHOULD be getting Nat'l attention!.

This damn elephant is just plain taking up too damn much space in the room!