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Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "Three days before the US Presidential Election takes place, California-based security firm Cylance showed the world how easy it is to hack one of the many [electronic] voting machine models that will be deployed at voting stations across the US on Election Day." Bleeping Computer reports that "The machine that Cylance researchers chose for their test was the Sequoia AVC Edge Mk1, one of the most popular models... The technique researchers created modifies the Public Counter, but also the Protective Counter, which is a backup mechanism that acts as a redundant verification system to ensure the first vote results are valid." Physical access is needed to hack the machine, but the hack takes a short time to perform.
FBI Director James Comey said in September that America's voting machines would be hard to compromise because they're not connect to the internet, but these researchers simply used a PCMCIA card to reflash the machine's firmware. Comey also made the reassuring point that it's hard to "hack into" America's voting system because "it's so clunky and dispersed. It's Mary and Fred putting a machine under the basketball hoop at the gym."
FBI Director James Comey said in September that America's voting machines would be hard to compromise because they're not connect to the internet, but these researchers simply used a PCMCIA card to reflash the machine's firmware. Comey also made the reassuring point that it's hard to "hack into" America's voting system because "it's so clunky and dispersed. It's Mary and Fred putting a machine under the basketball hoop at the gym."
"America" means "United States of America" because the rest of you are poor, brown and smelly.
Yes, that includes Canada.
... some months from now, regarding the alleged vote-rigging through hacked voting machines during the 2016 presidential elections:
"Although we did not find clear evidence that Hillary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing federal elections, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in the handling of voting machines...".
Following the above statement, and after riots and protests in the streets, the FBI reopens the investigation, analyzing 650K contested votes in Florida which proved to be decisive for the outcome of the elections. After one week only, the FBI Director releases a new statement confirming that:
"Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed previously, the reasons not to prosecute stand".
And they lived happily and rigged ever after.