Quote:As concerns about the security of the United States' elections continue to rise, Florida just underwent a disheartening test of their electronic voting.

During a hacking convention, DEFCON 26, an 11-year-old was able to hack into Florida's voting system and change the results of the election.

The DEFCON organizers set up 13 websites modeled after the sites in swing states, like Florida. They recruited 39 children between ages 6 and 17 to participate in the “DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village.”

The kids were tasked with changing the party names, candidate names, and the total votes candidates received.

The challenge took 11-year-old, Emmett Brewer, less than ten minutes to complete on the model of Florida's website.

Candidate names were swapped out with names like “Bob da Builder” and “Kim Jong Un” by other middle school hackers. One kid changed the vote totals to impossible numbers given Florida's population, including 12 billion.

All of these hacks were completed after only receiving an “introductory walkthrough” of the underlying source code.

While the kids running hacker village only manipulated state websites, other DEFCON participants were able to hack the voting machines themselves.

Hackers found that the back panel of the machine could be easily removed to reveal one part that controlled the whole machine. Through this, one hacker was able to gain serial control of the machine, implementing any changes he wanted.

He also found that the machine had no password protection. The hacker could swap out memory disks with corrupted information and no one would be able to find out.

Hackers were only allowed ten minutes to hack the voting machines, proving that it could be completed in a window of time that would not be suspicious at the polling stations.

Using a military strength security code, one hacker was only one step away from controlling the voting machine in the ten minute window.

Although requiring paper ballots would not prevent websites from being vulnerable, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) proposed a bill requiring paper ballots for federal elections.

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Turn these hackers loose on Russia, China and Iran!

Jeeezus, my 11 year old is worried about Fortnite and sneakers not.....

(08-13-2018 03:57 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  Jeeezus, my 11 year old is worried about Fortnite and sneakers not.....

These kids are your future Space Force members. I don't even know how to embed pictures much less hack. The only hack I know is when I used to get stupid drunk and hacked into the toilet

I'd like to know how many of the kids were successful? If it was 2-3 that's one thing, if it was "most"? We got issues.

If it was 2-3, its happening now in Democratically controlled cities.

You can't rig and election, and you can keep your doctor.

It's almost as if they are intentionally easy to hack/gain access to.

Doesn't soros own a brand of these machines? Weird thing for a hedge fund manager/nazi collaborator to get involved with.

These kids need to listen to Obama.

(08-13-2018 07:40 PM)Chappy Wrote:  You can't rig and election, and you can keep your doctor.

So is Soros financing "how to" tapes?

There are several voting machine hack videos on YouTube that have been out there for years. I watched one a few years ago that showed the card swap out they mentioned in the article.

If this shows anything, it's that we're a LONG WAY from being able to transition completely to electronic voting machines.

It's bad enough when paper ballots suddenly appear or disappear, but some 11 year old being able to hack the vote is worse.

Maybe that should be the Democrats rally cry for their next drive.....

HACK THE VOTE

https://youtu.be/rYnUksWt5HQ

In case anyone wants to impact the election beyond their one official vote.

(08-13-2018 07:41 PM)Kronke Wrote:  It's almost as if they are intentionally easy to hack/gain access to.

Doesn't soros own a brand of these machines? Weird thing for a hedge fund manager/nazi collaborator to get involved with.

LMAO.

"all you have to do is pull this out here and move this around here and wait a few minutes and hit all the buttons and after 10 minutes figure out how to navigate the user interface and then you can hack stuff"

I can tell you right now you're not going to be able to do that in any Georgia precinct where we use those machines.

Hack early, hack often.

(08-14-2018 10:07 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  

(08-13-2018 07:41 PM)Kronke Wrote:  It's almost as if they are intentionally easy to hack/gain access to.

Doesn't soros own a brand of these machines? Weird thing for a hedge fund manager/nazi collaborator to get involved with.

LMAO.

"all you have to do is pull this out here and move this around here and wait a few minutes and hit all the buttons and after 10 minutes figure out how to navigate the user interface and then you can hack stuff"

I can tell you right now you're not going to be able to do that in any Georgia precinct where we use those machines.

Less than 2 minutes. Not 10. It's clearly stated in the text of the tweet and in the video. Why lie?

Also, admitting to being ignorant (needing to figure out how to navigate the user interface) and being unqualified to think of all the possible ways these machines could be compromised using the method in the video is not an argument. Just like you don't know how the 11 year old hacked them, didn't mean they couldn't be hacked, and didn't prevent them from actually being hacked.

(08-13-2018 07:41 PM)Kronke Wrote:  It's almost as if they are intentionally easy to hack/gain access to.

Doesn't soros own a brand of these machines? Weird thing for a hedge fund manager/nazi collaborator to get involved with.

I'd like to see the details and how this was 'controlled'.....

I want CEO level access before I comment......

no way I believe this bs unless I have full access to info.....

As an IT professional who works on software that accepts credit card data I can attest to the fact that we undergo rigorous annual audits to prove we are PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant.

We're dealing with simple pieces of data:
First Name
Last Name
Address Ln 1
Address Ln 2
City
State
ZIP
CC#
Expiration Date (MMYY, MMDDYY, etc)
CVV#

But the handling of those simple pieces of data can have serious real world issues.

Those real world issues can result in your company being sued and forced to pay financial damages to impacted parties.

We have to demonstrate we can successfully process numerous scenarios.


I find it very difficult to believe that there are no rigorous standards to which producers of voting software and hardware are held.


If there are these kinds of elementary failures in voting systems then my professional opinion would be that it's by design.

When I right code I have to unit test each line and each method. I use valid data, invalid data, out of range data, etc and show that the code successfully handles the various possibilities.

We function test feature sets to make sure new software works as intended. We regression test to ensure we didn't accidentally break existing features.

All of these tests are documented, executed and analyzed.

Several minds work together to identify test items that might have been missed by someone else.


No. Voting machine companies are not just coding something in a garage in 2 hours and packaging it up for federal and state elections.

And if it really is this simple to hack into machines, then I have to assume it's been done in countless elections before.

And I can't trust any results which have EVER been reported.