Posted on 08/09/2016 12:06:24 PM PDT by TigerClaws
A professor from Princeton University and a graduate student just proved electronic voting machines in the U.S. remain astonishingly vulnerable to hackers — and they did it in under eight minutes.
In fact, Professor Andrew Appel and grad student Alex Halderman took just seven minutes to break into the authentic Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine Appel purchased for $82 online — one of the oldest models, but still in use Louisiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia, Politico reported.
After Halderman picked the hulking, 250-pound machine’s lock in seven seconds flat, Appel wrested its four ROM chips from a circuit board — an easy feat, considering the chips weren’t soldered in place.
Once freed, Appel could facilely replace the ROM chips with his own version “of modified firmware that could throw off the machine’s results, subtly altering the tally of votes, never to betray a hint to the voter,” Politico’s Ben Wofford explained.
Appel and a team of other so-called cyber-academics have hacked into various models of electronic voting machines in order to prove to the public the equipment is ridiculously bereft of security. Together with Ed Felten, Appel and a group of Princeton students “relentlessly hacked one voting machine after another … reprogramming one popular machine to play Pac-Man; infecting popular models with self-duplicating malware; [and] discovering keys to voting machine locks that could be ordered on eBay.”
Their efforts have gone largely ignored for 15 years.
But now, thanks to the explosion of controversy from revealing documents hacked from the DNC — and as-yet unproven accusations of Russian involvement — Appel and his colleagues’ persistence has finally garnered the attention it deserves.
If primaries were successfully rigged through corporate media collusion and behind-the-scenes coordination between the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, voters will certainly wonder what’s in store when they cast ballots using deeply-vulnerable electronic voting machines.
Perhaps that lack of security prompted the Department of Homeland Security to declare electronic voting machines part of U.S. “critical infrastructure” this week — a designation generally reserved for 16 sectors, including transportation systems, dams, and utilities, among other things — deemed “so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof.”
Now that attention has been given to the ease with which a number of popular, still-employed voting machines can be compromised, officials and voters alike have expressed grave concerns about the upcoming election.
“This isn’t a crazy hypothetical anymore,” Dan Wallach, a computer science professor at Rice and veteran of the team of Princeton ‘hackers,’ noted. “Once you bring nation states’ cyber activity into the game?” he hinted of potential Russian connections to the DNC hack and possible implications of foreign meddling in the national election. “These machines, they barely work in a friendly environment.”
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It’s pretty damn obvious that the Muzzies have already taken control of the U.S. Government. Jarrett, Abedin, Khan, Mateen, the Iranians, the Saudis and the rest. Don’t bother getting up America! I think it’s already too late.
Sorry. The above comment is supposed to be in the post below. Oh well...
Need to improve and de-bug the voting process by using paper, not electronic, voting devices.
Canada counts the entire country on paper ballot.
You open the box at your local polling station, count the ballots in front of witnesses, phone those totals into a central location and aggregate the totals.
It ain’t rocket science.
He hacked his own machine with his own software. I am SO impressed.
To be more convincing he should be given a real machine loaded with quality controlled factory software that he has not reviewed, containing touch screen screen parameters and file destination paths he has not seen.
Maybe Trump could push for that.
Agree.
Still, Trump was called unamerican and dangerous for suggesting poll results could be ‘rigged.’
Obviously, they can be.
And don’t forget..they have to show ID.
If the low-information states hadn’t been tricked by the Progressive Movement into screwing with the constitutionally enumerated presidential vote-counting process as evidenced by the 12th Amendment, then perhaps there wouldn’t be as much a concern for ballot box fraud.
Note that the Progressive Movement wants to control 10th Amendment-protected state powers that it helped the feds to steal from the states imo.
and friends of George Soros own the electronic voting machines
“This isn’t a crazy hypothetical anymore,” Dan Wallach, a computer science professor at Rice and veteran of the team of Princeton ‘hackers,’ noted. “Once you bring nation states’ cyber activity into the game?” he hinted of potential Russian connections to the DNC hack and possible implications of foreign meddling in the national election. “These machines, they barely work in a friendly environment.”
Its almost as if the designers of the machine wanted it to be hacked. If nothing else, the firmware ROMs must be soldered in place. Sheeesh.
Some honest academics poking into computer / voter problems the DNC is depending on to perpetuate control. More subjects for Hillary’s whack a mole now that ignoring them isn’t working as well.
If they were to do that, it would literally take DAYS to accurately tally the results.
DAYS!!!!
Like probably TWO or THREE full DAYS!!!
What kind of TV draw do you think that would have?
Do you realize how much the networks have invested in election night coverage?
Are you trying to put Wolf Blitzer or Anderson Cooper out of a job?
/s
If Trump can’t pull us out of it, we will most definitely go down.
In short the system of Democrat Voter Fraud is NOT perfect yet... they still have to ‘vote the people who don't show up to vote’... and that can be detected.
Punchcards with their hanging chads are much better. It’s harder to hack, easier to discover, easier to audit.
Florida in 2000 was verified within one hundred votes because of the paper. Could not be done with an electronic inventory of machines.
These machines are fraud magnets, such as the VW Diesel, or any new car control system, or a nuclear power plant control system. See Iran uranium enrichment.
If you are not on the voter’s list published by Elections Canada, you need acceptable ID such as a photo Operator’s ID or Provincial photo ID card to receive a ballot.
Canadian T1s (I believe your equivalent is a 1040?) have a box to check for Canadian citizens if you want to allow the Canadian Revenue Agency (equivalent to your IRS) to share your addy and DoB with Elections Canada. Also, new citizens can check a box on their citizenship application form, allowing their addy and DoB to be shared with Elections Canada.
With this system, I believe that there is the possibility of non-citizens voting because no birth certificate is required nor a certificate of citizenship required. That said, because of the requirement for acceptable photo ID, it likely minimizes the number of non-citizens voting. While someone could vote in multiple ridings, the information that one ID was used in multiple locations would eventually raise alarm bells and that person would face criminal charges. The effort required for massive fraud is so much more than with electronic voting. The downside of paper ballots where you mark an ‘X’ beside your choice, is that in a country the size of the US, results would not be known as quickly as they are now.
In Canada, the gerrymandering occurs when ‘ridings’ or ‘constituencies’ (your ‘Congressional Districts’) are redistributed due to demographic changes based on the decennial census. Of course the political party in power has a greater say in such redistributions. Of course that can also happen in the US or any country.
One advantage I feel that Canada and ‘Westminster’ style democracies have over the US is that at election time, only the ‘Minister’ (your ‘Secretary’) changes. The ‘Deputy Minister’ and all those of lesser rank are civil servants and usually are not replaced with a change of government, so there is continuity. On the downside, unfortunately the BBC series ‘Yes, ‘Minister’ and ‘Yes, Prime ‘Minister’, while very funny, are close to the truth. It can be difficult to work with an entrenched bureaucracy.
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