How to Hack the Vote and Steal the Election

divisionbyzero writes "Many people have asked for it so that the government will have to deal with it. So here it is: a guide to stealing an election that uses electronic voting machines written by Jon Stokes over at Arstechnica. From the article: "In all this time, I've yet to find a good way to convey to the non-technical public how well and truly screwed up we presently are, six years after the Florida recount. So now it's time to hit the panic button: In this article, I'm going to show you how to steal an election.""

Comments

Re:Lack of ethics

[HappySqurriel]

Or is it more unethical to have access to information that threatens us all and not say anything for fear that some "bad guy" might use it against us? The truth is that some "bad guy" is already sitting around thinking up ways to to use the information or writing the information down for himself from scratch. Security through obscurity never works for long.

You're correct in saying that Security through obscurity never works but the question is what is the correct way to approach a security problem?

Personally, I think that broadcasting the information is a highly risky approach and should only be done after you've exausted most private channels; for example, if you knew of a factoring method that made 1 in 16 RSA keys insecure it would make more sense to contact RSA and inform them of this weeks/months before you publish the method because it will take time for them to adapt their system.

The reality is that it will take less time for a hacker to take advantage of a potential exploit then it will for a company to fix an exploit so you should give a company the opportunity to fix the problem before you announce it to the world.

Re:Lack of ethics

[Steepe]

Huh? What in the hell does gay marriage have to do with anything you listed there? Every single one of those is illegal in every single state with the exception of #4 which has nothing to do with gays, and there isn't anything you can do about it anyway except get divorced so she is not your wife any more while having sex with her yoga instructor.

But just for the hell of it, even though it makes absolutely no sense in the grand scheme of things, and has nothing at all to do with the topics mentioned..

1. I generally don't go to sleep in a situation where someone can have sex with my while I'm asleep except my wife. Unless they broke into my house, in which case the alarm would go off and they would be dead because I would put a 45 shell between their eyes. Completely legal in my state.

2. Illegal this time, but the above mentioned 45 shell in the above mentioned between the eyes would once again happen.

3. I have 4 boys, no daughters, if my 14 or 15 year old boys were having sex with their english teacher I would probably have a problem with it only because she is a teacher, therefore in a position of authority. I however personally remember having sex when I was 14, and with a 14 year old girl. Never had sex with a 35 year old in that age range, mostly because I was not attracted to them.

4. Hire a private eye, get it on tape, and then D-I-V-O-R-C-E