Professor Pulls Off "Epic Hack" of Voting System

[Icky]

Professor pulls off ‘epic hack’ of voting system


By Muriel Kane ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 -- 1:23 pm

The District of Columbia's plan to use a previously untried internet voting system for absentee ballots cast overseas has been raising ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) red flags for a while. But now the ability of a team of computer experts to easily take over the system and reprogram it to play the University of Michigan fight song whenever a vote is cast has caused the whole scheme to be called off ([Only registered and activated users can see links]).
As blogger Brad Friedman reported ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) on Monday, "The very short planned pre-election test phase, in which hackers were invited to try to manipulate the system, has been abruptly aborted in the wake of a, um, disturbing (if not wholly unpredictable) development,"



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Well done, Professor!


I guess it should be noted that it doesn't take a Professor to do this kind of thing... Kids can do this... So could hackers in Russia or China, for example... Just sayin'.... :shrug:

[webhead]

So could hackers in Russia or China, for example... Just sayin'.... :shrug:

Bin Laden, too! He could have a bunch of Pakistani's hacking into all sorts of IT systems in the US of A!

[Icky]

Isn't Bin Laden dead?
So... ZOMBIE Al Qaeda Computer Hackers!!!!!!!

Suppose it's possible...

:shrug:

[Icky]

My paranoia wasn't misplaced, apparently...



By Brad Friedman ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) on 10/11/2010 6:05am
Iranian, Chinese Computers Also Discovered to Have Been Hacking D.C. Internet Voting System ([Only registered and activated users can see links])
Startling testimony offered by the U. of Michigan computer science professor whose team penetrated D.C.'s 'pilot program' server for what was to have been a live election beginning in just days...
[Only registered and activated users can see links] University of Michigan computer scientist and his team were not the only ones attempting to hack the Internet Vote scheme that Washington D.C. had planned to roll out for actual use with military and overseas voters in this November's mid-term election.
According to testimony given to a D.C. City Council committee last Friday by J. Alex Halderman ([Only registered and activated users can see links]), asst. professor of electrical engineering and computer science at University of Michigan, hackers from Iran and China were also attempting to access the very same network infrastructure, even as his own team of students had successfully done so, taking over the entirety of the Internet Voting system which had been opened for a first-of-its-kind live test.
[See our report last week ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) on details of what had already been disclosed about Halderman's startling hack prior to last Friday's hearing.]


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