Obama's New Tech Advisor Proved How Easy It Is To Hack Voting Machines (video)

[Pharaoh]

http://gizmodo.com/obamas-new-tech-advisor-proved-how-easy-it-is-to-hack-v-1703703152




The White House just named Ed Felten as its newest advisor in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Felten is a professor at Princeton, but you might remember him from a 2006 video where he shows how to hack a voting machine and potentially steal an election. (Conspiracy theorists, start your engines!)

“Our study shows that a criminal who can inject malicious software into this voting machine can control how the votes are tallied,” the narrator of the video says. “His malicious software can steal votes, and it can cover its tracks so that the theft cannot be detected.”

Felten and his two grad student researchers at Princeton wrote software to hack the Diebold machines and demonstrated it in the video below.

[pnwmom]

1. I hope this means Obama is taking this problem seriously. n/t

[haikugal]

2. So do I!

[BlueCaliDem]

3. This a sure sign he is, pnwmom. He understands that the Republicans are going to try

and steal the next presidential elections, and is already preparing to counter it.

[proverbialwisdom]

8. In 2011, Professor Felten left Princeton and served as first Chief Technologist for the FTC.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2010/11/17/names-you-need-to-know-in-2011-ed-felten/

...Enter Ed Felten. He’s the director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. The professor is heading to D.C. in January (2011) to start a one-year appointment at the Federal Trade Commission, the federal agency tasked with protecting consumer privacy. Felten will be the agency’s first ever Chief Technologist.

More: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=775367

[lpbk2713]

4. I'm sure the GOP has been applying this knowledge for at least 15 years.

The vote count was only one issue that stole the Y2K Florida sElection.

[flamingdem]

5. Good news!

[Live and Learn]

6. I can't believe it has taken this long to get this simple knowledge to the White House. nt

[Ed Suspicious]

7. (Conspiracy Theory) Maybe this is some multidimensional chess where Obama appeals to their insanity

by looking to be really close with the voting machine hacker. The Republicans accuse him of trying to rig voting machines to steal elections for the Democrats. They have no choice but to put an independent investigator on the voting machines in swing states in order to stop this wild and crazy Obama plot. They wind up sacrificing their cheating advantage in order to protect their fearful asses from the same cheating advantage (but Obama's advantage is perceived as so much worse because of the influence born of years of demonizing Obama making him seem so much stronger, more powerful than he even is). Maybe he's using their own paranoia and their own sick obsession with him as a tool weapon to get them to agree to police themselves. Obama, the weakest president in history, is the most dangerous president ever, they say.

It's possible. Admit it!!!

Check---mate, Mr. President.

[eridani]

9. Sadly, this was more of an issue for us in 2000 and 2004, where the results were close enough

--to enable stealing. We went and forgot due to Obama's larger victory margins in 2008 and 2012.

Remember--just because cheating (or even software bugs) doesn't change the results--it's still band and needs to be nipped in the bud, because we can count on other elections being close, sometime, somewhere.

[Pharaoh]

10. this is a problen in Wisconsin also

I don't believe Walker was legitimately elected 3 times........