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Researchers Demo Hardware Attacks Against India's E-Voting Machines
An anonymous reader writes "India, the world's largest democracy, votes entirely on government-made electronic voting machines that authorities claim are 'tamperproof,' 'infallible,' and 'perfect,' but last week security researchers proved that they can be manipulated to steal elections. A team led by Hari Prasad, Professor J. Alex Halderman, and Rop Gonggrijp released an awesome video that shows off hardware hacks they built. These machines are much simpler than e-voting designs used in the US, but as the research paper explains, this makes attacking the hardware even easier. Halderman's students at the University of Michigan took only about a week to build a replacement display board that lies about the vote totals, and the team also built a pocket-sized device that clips onto the memory chips, with the machine powered on, and rewrites the votes. Clippy says, 'It looks like you're trying to rig an election ...'"
Maybe it is time for a new law: You cheat, you die.
They do that kind of thing in China. Note that they keep doing it, because it doesn't work. There's always those who think they won't be caught.
How can you ask a soldier to die for a leader whose election process he didn't take part in?
And yet, they keep signing up. One way is to put them in a position where they will go to prison when they turn 18 if they don't enlist, they've had great success with that strategy among minorities.
And before you say that death is far so serious. Treason still carries a death sentence in many nations, and cheating in elections is treason against nation as a whole.
Anyone who advocates the death penalty is probably scum. And anyone who advocates the death penalty for anything but murder is obviously scum.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"