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

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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This happened with the Dutch in 2006

[JoshuaZ]

As discussed here in 2006, the Dutch had to modify their voting machines back in 2006 due to exactly this sort of attack. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/14/1641239

Re:Honestly

[icebike]

Exactly so.

The equipment to carry out this snooping is easily spotted, and more easily foiled.

With more than one voting station in the room, said eaves dropper could never distinguish one vote from the other, and could certainly not CHANGE the results.

You would be better able to guess how persons voted by the color of their tie. http://www.tie-necktie-video.com/tie-color.html