I think it’s good to have these kind of hacking sessions to find vulnerabilities in voting machines. But when the vulnerabilities are this basic, then we’ve got problems:
FOX NEWS – Voting machines were no match for some of the nation’s best hackers at a weekend conference in Las Vegas.
At the annual DefCon Conference, hackers boasted that they were able to breach the systems — in one case in as little as 90 minutes — in a demonstration that could renew longstanding concerns about voting-machine security.
“It took me only a few minutes to see how to hack it,” security consultant Thomas Richards told The Hill.
Conference participants reportedly were handed a total of 30 voting machines, of several different types, and told to find their weaknesses. They did.
With every machine successfully breached in less than a day, the conference proved the devices are not up to par with modern technologies.
Hacking methods reportedly included simple tactics like surfing through Google to find passwords, and hitting control-alt-delete and entering the machine’s generic password to unlock administrative functions.
Concerns over the nation’s voting security have escalated amid warnings that foreign actors and others could exploit vulnerabilities and disrupt elections.
When I can’t get into my router because I can’t remember the password, I basically do what these guys did to hack these voter machines. Unbelievable. These generic passwords shouldn’t even be enabled! That’s not a vulnerability, that’s an invitation.
Go ahead and consider this an open thread.
While we’re open threading, watch this short video all the way to the end. It’ll make you feel better:
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— ABC News (@ABC) July 31, 2017