via Dvorak News Blog by Uncle Dave on 3/14/12
I wonder how many articles will be published this year on how easy voting machines and, in this case, online voting systems, are to crack? We’re starting to rival other countries who barely pretend their elections are fair and voter fraud free.
Researchers at the University of Michigan have reported that it took them only a short time to break through the security functions of a pilot project for online voting in Washington, D.C. “Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained near complete control of the election server”, the researchers wrote in a paperPDF that has now been released. “We successfully changed every vote and revealed almost every secret ballot.” The hack was only discovered after about two business days – and most likely only because the intruders left a visible trail on purpose.
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