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."

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Re:If they own it, whats the problem?

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree wholeheartedly.

Let's all grab our torches and pitchforks and storm the House and the Senate while they're in session, beating the living shit out of everybody inside. Then we hold them all for ransom and exchange their worthless lives for our dignity and a working middle class. We can use the ones from the Southern states as food if negotiations take too long.