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75. packman

Sat Apr 18, 2015, 10:16 PM

Apr 2015

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7998

and another hack with 26 bucks worth of electronics

National Security Lab Hacks Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Machine by Remote Control With $26 in Computer Parts: My New EXCLUSIVE at Salon
Hack team leader: 'Can do similar things on pretty much every e-voting machine'...
By Brad Friedman on 9/27/2011, 10:17am PT

[UPDATE 9/28/11: I interviewed Argonne National Lab's Roger Johnston on my Pacific Radio show on KPFK today. In the interview, Johnston concedes that it's not only touch-screen systems of the type described below which are vulnerable to this newly developed hack, but that paper-ballot based optical-scan systems can likely be manipulated by the same techniques. My interview with Johnson is now posted here. - BF]

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The Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT) at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has managed to hack a Diebold Accuvote touch-screen voting machine in what I describe at my exclusive today at Salon as perhaps "one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date."

As noted by the computer scientists and security experts at Argonne's VAT, largely all that's needed to accomplish this hack is about $26 and an 8th grade science education.

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Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away [View all] LiberalArkie Apr 2015 OP

Maybe on purpose..... louis-t Apr 2015 #1

This is not possible RobertEarl Apr 2015 #2

of course you're right...Once again, Obamas fault=) Volaris Apr 2015 #22

Thanks, Illinois state senator Obama! JHB Apr 2015 #45

That is not a bug it is a FEATURE! Vincardog Apr 2015 #3

Yep. Pretty much. NorthCarolina Apr 2015 #10

K&R DeSwiss Apr 2015 #4

+1 L0oniX Apr 2015 #34

I don't trust ANY of these damned things n/t arcane1 Apr 2015 #5

Amen. SusanCalvin Apr 2015 #8

Same here! Often proprietary code, none allowed to look. It's ridiculous! Way too much RKP5637 Apr 2015 #26

Even software doesn't matter that much when the other parts cprise Apr 2015 #41

It's a fucking travesty. I cannot understand how this is acceptable to the citizenry of our country. Dark n Stormy Knight Apr 2015 #44

Yep, that's the bottom line of it all, TPTB don't care if we like it or not. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2015 #47

+1 840high Apr 2015 #76

Yep, exactly! Black Box Voting! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2015 #46

K&R! nt Mnemosyne Apr 2015 #6

This is so bad it would be comedic. F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #7

I'm sure the GOP governors will be buying up the used machines on Craigslist to use themselves tomm2thumbs Apr 2015 #9

Paper ballots. And a federally constitutional amendment avowing right to vote. Dont call me Shirley Apr 2015 #11

Paper ballots. Hire a few more people to count them, democracy demands a just accounting. Fred Sanders Apr 2015 #14

" a voter verificatied paper ballot as the ballot of record" elehhhhna Apr 2015 #17

Paper ballots can be machine scanned for a quick result csziggy Apr 2015 #54

This is another reason why I believe the best Jenoch Apr 2015 #12

Amen, a thousand times AMEN!!! Stevepol Apr 2015 #15

Our paper ballots are counted by a machine. Jenoch Apr 2015 #51

All they have to do is add a paper printout. JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #13

No computers. Pen and paper. Scan with human eyes, record and store with human hands. Fred Sanders Apr 2015 #16

You may be skeptical, but I think they're pretty reliable JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #19

Good gawd RobertEarl Apr 2015 #20

I also hate wired telephones. JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #23

Ohio? RobertEarl Apr 2015 #24

Pay attention JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #27

OMG RobertEarl Apr 2015 #29

People can be corrupt JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #32

people are corrupt that is why it is ussually an insider doing the fraud questionseverything Apr 2015 #38

Paper cares even less LiberalLovinLug Apr 2015 #40

You didn't understand what I said. JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #50

Then computers are a burden to the voters cprise Apr 2015 #52

Again, you have a bit of a misconception JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #56

A mechanical hole-puncher is a billion times more transparent cprise Apr 2015 #57

That's why I like a printed paper trail. JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #62

That makes voters spend twice the effort on each ballot cprise Apr 2015 #67

Ok, I guess I don't understand your paper receipt usage LiberalLovinLug Apr 2015 #60

Hahaha JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #63

No volunteer counters. Professionals trained by a non-partisan, non-political election commission. Fred Sanders Apr 2015 #21

I've never seen that description before JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #25

And I forgot...a paid day off for all registered voters on the bi-annual National Election Day. Fred Sanders Apr 2015 #30

i remember elction nights before computerized voting/counting questionseverything Apr 2015 #39

I see your point... JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #49

u r funny,if it wasn't so sad questionseverything Apr 2015 #65

Don't insult me. JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #66

Results... Major Nikon Apr 2015 #68

Thanx JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #70

all of my links disproved everything you said questionseverything Apr 2015 #71

Your links predate the current system JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #72

as i understand it you are saying because a roll of paper was attatched questionseverything Apr 2015 #74

So when a a republican wins, it must be cheating? JohnnyRingo Apr 2015 #77

u refer to how many voted,that is checked but not how they voted questionseverything Apr 2015 #79

Oh no...not again nt fadedrose Apr 2015 #18

Yep, it's a perpetual d�j� vu as we wander in the same ruts with seemingly little RKP5637 Apr 2015 #28

Since no one is interested in fixing it that can fix it, are there any counter hackers standing by lonestarnot Apr 2015 #31

Stop fucking around with the oligarchy's machines! Hillary must win! L0oniX Apr 2015 #33

Pencil on paper is high tech enough. eom JEB Apr 2015 #35

Remember 2004? KansDem Apr 2015 #36

Researchers? snort Apr 2015 #37

"We work for the 1%. Trust us." blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #42

URL: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/09/24/us/replvoting600.jpg blkmusclmachine Apr 2015 #43

'admin' as the Windows Administrator password? RiverNoord Apr 2015 #48

Mostly in white precincts underpants Apr 2015 #53

Only idiots and crooks support electronic voting. nt Zorra Apr 2015 #55

They're already easy to hack DFW Apr 2015 #58

It is very easy to make a truthful secure voting machine. LiberalArkie Apr 2015 #59

I haven't voted on an machines for years. don't see them around la much Liberal_in_LA Apr 2015 #61

Kicking realFedUp Apr 2015 #64

technocrats say that to preserve democracy, we must spy on citizens and count votes in secret... whereisjustice Apr 2015 #69

Didn't some university a while back get Tetris to play on a touchscreen voting machine? Initech Apr 2015 #73

packman questionseverything Apr 2015 #75

Here in Wisconsin-Command Central in Minnesota counts our votes. That's how we got Scott Walker. midnight Apr 2015 #78