Computer programmer admits, under oath, that elections can easily be rigged

[Laize]

Not sure how old this is, but a computer programmer in Ohio admitted to having been solicited by politicians (Whom he names) to write lines of code for voting machines that could be used to rig elections.

Little bit disturbing...

[Simulacrum]

And before you know it we'll have Robin Williams in the whitehouse.

[Tradewind]

And before you know it we'll have Robin Williams in the whitehouse.

That would be awesome!

[apepi]

If you do not think this was possible I do not know what to say. But Robin Williams ain't so bad.

[Flatspriest]

And before you know it we'll have Robin Williams in the whitehouse.

That would be far better than what we have in the whitehouse currently.

[Mifuyne]

Ofcourse it can.
Where on earth did they have ones that are 100% fair?

[Deleted]

This is not news

[Laize]

Let me rephrase. Of course they could be used to rig elections.

Rather, we have a computer programmer testifying that he was solicited by a US congressman to rig an election in his district and suspects that such a rigging took place given the outcome of the election compared to the exit polls.

[Simulacrum]

Well, he proposes the safeguard of looking at the sourcecode 'before it goes out', doesn't he? Strange that there isn't such a safeguard already in place if it's as easy as he says to pull this off without it being possible to detect.

[Tokru]

Just don't use those machines?

It's a lot harder to rig real elections with paper because multiple people are around.

[Deleted]

are you honestly unaware of the fact that if there's even a minor piece of electronics in there, it can be hacked? I mean, you just need to find a way to inject your malicious code into the execution process, and there are tons of ways to do that. Hell, In an episode in Season 7, a man managed to hack the Angelatron by grafting a QR code onto a bone. And it's possible to hack a smartphone through the charger. In a few weeks, someone wants to show they can hack a car on a security conference. And I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible to insert a security leak into a WoW addon.

[Laize]

are you honestly unaware of the fact that if there's even a minor piece of electronics in there, it can be hacked? I mean, you just need to find a way to inject your malicious code into the execution process, and there are tons of ways to do that. Hell, In an episode in Season 7, a man managed to hack the Angelatron by grafting a QR code onto a bone. And it's possible to hack a smartphone through the charger. In a few weeks, someone wants to show they can hack a car on a security conference. And I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible to insert a security leak into a WoW addon.

Do you have any idea what the words youre using even mean?

[Iamanerd]

Yeah what Laize said, you do realize that is a TV show right? As in it's not real? I'm sorry but please show proof that people can pull of "hacking" of that nature.

[Aqua]

And before you know it we'll have Robin Williams in the whitehouse.

Dammit my FIRST thought. I am clearly a terrible human being.

[Deleted]

Do you have any idea what the words youre using even mean?

yes I do. I'm a developer myself, I need to know stuff like this for my job. for sources:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06...r_car_hacking/

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/0...in-one-minute/

http://bones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Crack_in_the_Code

the addon stuff is pure conjecture, but all it takes is some malicious code hidden in an image record.

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Yeah what Laize said, you do realize that is a TV show right? As in it's not real? I'm sorry but please show proof that people can pull of "hacking" of that nature.

one of them is from the TV show, but it's something that's actually possible.

[oblivionx]

This explains how we got Obummer.

[Beazy]

"You know, comrades," says Stalin, "that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how." -Stalin-


Quoted from "Vospominaniia Byvshego Sekretaria Stalina"

[apepi]

are you honestly unaware of the fact that if there's even a minor piece of electronics in there, it can be hacked? I mean, you just need to find a way to inject your malicious code into the execution process, and there are tons of ways to do that. Hell, In an episode in Season 7, a man managed to hack the Angelatron by grafting a QR code onto a bone. And it's possible to hack a smartphone through the charger. In a few weeks, someone wants to show they can hack a car on a security conference. And I wouldn't be surprised if it were possible to insert a security leak into a WoW addon.

You can even have a keylogger through a powerline....or even with a laser..

[Tradewind]

You can even have a keylogger through a powerline....or even with a laser..

You can even download a bear.

[Manhands]

You can even download a bear.

You can turn a photocopier into a polygraph machine.

I saw it on The Wire.