Not much of a competition. IF you are handed a voting machine, you can ‘hack’ it. The security for voting machines is physical (they are locked up and guarded, and they are not connected to any computer networks during their time of use).
They are also tested randomly, to make sure they don’t come with viruses, although technically you could, if you knew the exact test, write hacked software that would give correct results until the actual vote, and then tweak things a bit.
THere is also supposed to be other safeguards, like comparing total votes, such that your hack really has to be able to modify results in subtle ways, not just generate additional votes. The official s/w can protect against this (like you shouldn’t allow fractional votes).
The hacking contest violated many of the security protocols.
“The hacking contest violated many of the security protocols.”
Just another round of “fake news” generated to keep stirring the “Russia, Russia, Russia” story to new lows. Too bad so many are so poorly informed or aware as to accept this as being any part of reality.
Exactly. Give me physical access to a system and all kinds of mayhem can follow.