Iranian, Chinese Computers Also Discovered to Have Been Hacking D.C. Internet Voting System

[Joanne98]

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.


http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8118

[Historic NY]

1. If they're not buying the vote they're hacking it........nice going.

[drm604]

2. K&R

Very important information. This should wake up everyone to the dangers of electronic voting, regardless of their political orientation.