Video Shows Easy Hacking of E-Voting Machines

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 9, 2008 @02:47AM from the stick-to-gambling-machines-kid dept.

Mike writes "The Security Group at the University of California in Santa Barbara has released the video that shows the attacks carried out against the Sequoia voting system. The video shows an attack where a virus-like software spreads across the voting system. The coolest part of the video is the one that shows how the 'brainwashed' voting terminals can use different techniques to change the votes even when a paper audit trail is used. Pretty scary stuff. The video is absolute proof that these types of attacks are indeed feasible and not just a conspiracy theory. Also, the part that shows how the 'tamperproof' seals can be completely bypassed in seconds is very funny (and quite disturbing at the same time)."

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Quicktime? by GreatBunzinni · 2008-09-09 02:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Seriously? Quicktime? For god's sake, I would expect that an institution dedicated to higher education would understand the importance of using open standards.

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1. Re:Quicktime? by imsabbel · 2008-09-09 04:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  That doesnt change a bit about the fact that mov as a container sucks.
  MP4 is hardly better, but at least you dont need to use quicktime for it.
  And spare me the "alternatives", i never found them to work reliable.
  
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Citizenship of a wanna be president by seededfury · 2008-09-09 03:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Funny thing is, I looked this up and the very first link led me one of those "controlled media" websites. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415028/