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Contest To Hack Brazilian Voting Machines
An anonymous reader writes "Brazilian elections went electronic many years ago, with very fast results but a few complaints from losers, of course. Next month, 10 teams that accepted the challenge will have access to hardware and software (Google translation; original in Portuguese) for the amount of time they requested (from one hour to four days). Some will try to break the vote's secrecy and some will try to throw in malicious code to change the entered votes without leaving traces."
The simplest way to win this is to hack the judging process so that your team is announced the winner, with a false claim that you hacked one of the machines.
A senior aide goes up to President Bush. "Sir," he begins, "we just heard that two Brazilian men were killed in an attack in Iraq."
Bush is visibly shaken, he hangs his head and covers his mouth with his palm. After a few moments, he asks in a solemn tone, "How many is a Brazilian, again?"