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11-Year-Old Changes Election Results On Florida's Website: Defcon 2018 (pbs.org)
UnknowingFool writes: At this year's DEFCON, a group of 50 children aged 8 to 16 participated in a hack of 13 imitation election websites. One 11-year-old boy changed the voting results in 10 minutes. A 11 year-old-girl was also able to change the voting results in 30 minutes. Overall, more than 30 of the 50 children were able to hack the websites in some form. The so-called "DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village" allowed kids the chance to manipulate vote tallies, party names, candidate names and vote count totals. The 11-year-old girl was able to triple the number of votes found on the website in under 15 minutes.
The National Association of Secretaries of State said in a statement that it is "ready to work with civic-minded members of the DEFCON community wanting to become part of a proactive team effort to secure our elections." But the organization expressed skepticism over the hackers' abilities to access the actual state websites. "It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols," it read. "While it is undeniable websites are vulnerable to hackers, election night reporting websites are only used to publish preliminary, unofficial results for the public and the media. The sites are not connected to vote counting equipment and could never change actual election results."
The National Association of Secretaries of State said in a statement that it is "ready to work with civic-minded members of the DEFCON community wanting to become part of a proactive team effort to secure our elections." But the organization expressed skepticism over the hackers' abilities to access the actual state websites. "It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols," it read. "While it is undeniable websites are vulnerable to hackers, election night reporting websites are only used to publish preliminary, unofficial results for the public and the media. The sites are not connected to vote counting equipment and could never change actual election results."
Just search for 'SJWs owned' or 'Leftists owned' and you'll find hundreds of examples of videos of numerous Left wing idiots who can't even explain their position.
Yeah, owning SJWs is fun. Just as much fun as owning alt-right nazis on *their* stupid positions. Stop acting like either side has a monopoly on unfounded positions and civil rights abuses. Authoritarian left, authortarian right, left shits on due process, right shits on 4th amendment, left shits on free speech, right shits on free press, both sides unite to pass FOSTA and shit on internet speech.
Both you and your arch-nemesis the 'radical left' have a lot more in common then you'll ever admit and the few sane people left in this world are sick of both of you wiping your ass with the constitution whenever it advances your own interests or hurts the other team.
An Anonymous Coward (of course) chortled:
Just search for 'SJWs owned' or 'Leftists owned' and you'll find hundreds of examples of videos of numerous Left wing idiots who can't even explain their position.
Prompting fafalone to respond:
Yeah, owning SJWs is fun. Just as much fun as owning alt-right nazis on *their* stupid positions. Stop acting like either side has a monopoly on unfounded positions and civil rights abuses. Authoritarian left, authortarian right, left shits on due process, right shits on 4th amendment, left shits on free speech, right shits on free press, both sides unite to pass FOSTA and shit on internet speech.
Both you and your arch-nemesis the 'radical left' have a lot more in common then you'll ever admit and the few sane people left in this world are sick of both of you wiping your ass with the constitution whenever it advances your own interests or hurts the other team.
For the past two decades or so, I've self-identified as a radical centrist. As you might expect, it's not uncommon for people to ask me to define the concept for them.
That's pretty simple, actually. Keeping in mind that a regular, or garden-variety centrist is one who believes that solutions to problems that provide the greatest good for the greatest number, and that entail legislation, tend, in general, to come from the center of the discussion, rather than from its margins:
A radical centrist is one who believes that the quality of public discourse would be signficantly improved if we were to take the most strident voices from both fringes, put 'em against a wall, and shoot their asses ...
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