These Hackers Reveal How Easy It Is To Hack US Voting Machines

[bathroommonkey76]

In a muggy little room in the far corner of Caesar's Palace, wide-eyed and almost audibly buzzing is Carsten Schurmann. The German-born hacker has just broken into a U.S. voting machine with his Apple Mac in a matter of minutes. He can turn it on and off, he can read all the information stored within and if he felt like it, he could probably change some votes if the system was in use. "This is insane," he says.

But today, that machine is not in use, it's being opened up for anyone to try what Schurmann did. A host of technically-minded folk have gathered at DEF CON's Voting Machine Village, where they're tinkering with more than 25 commonly used systems used across American elections. They might just save the next election from Russian hackers.

Those machines are, co-organizer Matt Blaze says, horribly insecure. Blaze's hope is the public will be made aware of their many, many flaws, and demand elections be protected from outside, illegal interference, following the much-documented attempts by Russia to install Donald Trump as president.

"One of the things we want to drive home is that these things are ultimately software-based systems and we know software-based systems have vulnerabilities, that just comes with the territory," Blaze tells Forbes. Blaze has previously highlighted serious weaknesses in machines.

"We want to make the problems public, so they can be fixed, so the public will know what the problems are and will be able to demand their systems be improved. Anything that helps informs the public qualifies as good faith here.

"The stakeholders for voting machines are everyone in the country. So it's important the problems get fixed."

Read more:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/07/29/def-con-hacking-election-voting-machines/#1964bf371d55

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[TheFrenchRazor]

1. nothing to see here folks...seriously, we will never have another legit election in this country. nt

[bathroommonkey76]

2. No one cares...

All of this is BS conspiracy theories to some on here.

And let's not talk about the politicians in all the states who don't give a f*ck about honest elections.