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Voting Machine Attacks Proven To Be Practical
An anonymous reader writes "Every time a bunch of academics show vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines, critics complain that the attacks aren't realistic, that attackers won't have access to source code, or design documents, or be able to manipulate the hardware, etc. So this time a bunch of computer scientists from UCSD, Michigan, and Princeton offered a rebuttal. They completely own the AVC Advantage using no access to source code or design documents (PDF), and deliver a complete working attack in a plug-in cartridge that could be used by anyone with a few private minutes with the machine. Moreover, they came up with some cool tricks to do this on a machine protected against traditional code injection attacks (the AVC processor will only execute instructions from ROM). The research was presented at this week's USENIX EVT."
That "USENIX EVT" is an anagram for "UNISEX VET"?
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore."
Wait until near the end of the day and find a polling place that leans heavily toward "the other guy."
Enter the building and set off an explosive that utterly destroys the ballot boxes and their contents, including their memory chips.
Method #2, which is likely to fail due to the election being canceled and rescheduled:
Find a way to prevent people hostile to your candidate from getting to the polls. Engineer car crashes on the roads leading to the polls. Engineer long lines at the polls. If those hostile to you vote late in the day, arrive before they do and take hostages. Yes, the voting time will be extended but a lot of would-be voters will give up and go home.
You may successfully change the outcome by a few dozen votes. In a close election, particularly one with low turnout like a bond election or dog-catcher election, this may be all you need.
Oh, be prepared to be arrested and spend many years in jail, or die before the day is out. But hey, nobody ever said leading the revolution would be without cost.
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