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National: Hackers breach each of dozens voting machines brought to conference | The Hill

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LAS VEGAS — One of the nation’s largest cybersecurity conferences is inviting attendees to get hands-on experience hacking a slew of voting machines, demonstrating to researchers how easy the process can be.

“It took me only a few minutes to see how to hack it,” said security consultant Thomas Richards, glancing at a Premier Election Solutions machine currently in use in Georgia...

The conference acquired 30 machines for hackers to toy with. Every voting machine in the village was hacked.

An example of black box voting machines that were each and every one successfully hacked at the DefCon convention in Las Vegas.
An example of black box voting machines that were each and every one successfully hacked at the DefCon convention in Las Vegas.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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