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Brazilian Breaks Secrecy of Brazil's E-Voting Machines With Van Eck Phreaking

Posted by timothy on from the old-ways-are-best dept.

After the report last week that Brazil's e-voting machines had withstood the scrutiny of a team of invited hackers, reader ateu writes with news that a hacker has shown that the Linux-based voting machines aren't perfectly safe; he was able to eavesdrop on them (translated from Portuguese) by means of Van Eck phreaking.

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  1. Re:Honestly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Condoms.

    Yours in failed democracy.

    K. Trout.

  2. Re:Honestly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's simple. just throw out the person with the radar dish, oscilliscope, and notepad.

  3. You are all thinking way too hard about this by Spazed · · Score: 1, Funny

    Van Eck according to wikipedia: "Van Eck phreaking is the process of eavesdropping on the contents of a CRT and LCD display by detecting its electromagnetic emissions" So basically screen looking on Halo is Van Eck Phreaking. You are all doing it as you read this comment unless you printed it out.