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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. I'm still not even at this step yet by Opportunist · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm not yet at "how do we get e-voting secure?". I'm still puzzled by the question "why the f. do we need it?"

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