Well now that half the Internet thinks an 11 year-old hacked a voter machine & changed the results, I suppose it's too late to suggest reading the part where it says the girl "didn't actually change vote totals."
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Which part? Hacking vote machines or changing votes?
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My issue with DEFCON coverage is that issues of generalizability outside of DEFCON tend to get lost in the breathless headlines.
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Those issues you offer are one-sided pro-voting-machine apologist issues. The reality is that if a nation wanted to hack the vote they would have more time and resources than DEF CON, not less.
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Not necessarily. Hacking a voting machine remotely with little information how it functions is much harder.
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But that's exactly my point. A serious effort would not be based on little information. And there's no reason to assume it would be done remotely.
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It’s hard to send thousands of Russians out to precincts. Thousands if anyone’s, actually.
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Your lack of imagination on possible attack vectors is telling. There are plenty of ways to access and manipulate voting machines en masse. Remote access for those machines that allow it. Physical access in storage. Access to software updates or replication servers.
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Well, maybe it’s knowledge that gets me down. None of the voting machines have inline access. And they have been chastised for not getting updates, so that’s one is out, too. To exploit the ballot vulnerabilities one would need to hack the ballot system, not voting machines.
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