Security Now 211: Hacking Electronic Voting Machines

grc.com by Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte | Aug. 27, 2009 (Interview)

(Podcast) This week Steve and Leo describe the inner workings of one of the best designed and apparently most secure electronic voting machines - currently in use in the United States - and how a group of university researchers hacked it without any outside information to create a 100% stealth vote stealing system. Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: National Security, Technology, Computers
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Posted by: Posted by Doug Greer - Aug 28, 2009 - 1:35 PM PDT
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Edited by: Doug Greer - Aug 28, 2009 - 1:37 PM PDT

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 by Doug Greer - Aug. 28, 2009

This is expert advice from Steve Gibson about whether we should trust voting machine systems.

The profit motive causes voting company representatives to lie about the security and reliability of their voting machine systems. If there is no way to independently verify the accuracy of these systems, there is no reason to use them.

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