Posted on 11/15/2018 3:58:54 PM PST by hadit2here
This is not surprising:
This year, I bought two more machines to see if security had improved. To my dismay, I discovered that the newer model machines -- those that were used in the 2016 election -- are running Windows CE and have USB ports, along with other components, that make them even easier to exploit than the older ones. Our voting machines, billed as "next generation," and still in use today, are worse than they were before -- dispersed, disorganized, and susceptible to manipulation.
Cory Doctorow's comment is correct:
(Excerpt) Read more at schneier.com ...
I hear you can pick up a Soros Machine pretty cheap.
LOL
It's good to see a big name like Bruce Schneier weigh in on this.
A few years ago a hacker so thoroughly compromised a "secure" voting machine that he was able to run PacMan on it.
WinCE wasn’t good enough to become the standard in anything it was used for...phones, PDAs, set-top boxes. Can’t have been any new designs in the last ten years.
bttt
I’d rather buy used slot machines
—(just a slight variation of the same game)—
in the hopes that the cash box hadn’t been cleaned out yet.
I was at my bank a few years ago and I saw that the terminal they were using had Windoz. I told the teller that I now had virtually NO confidence in that bank now that I saw they were running Windoz. She laughed and said that it was just on their terminals and the bank computer didn’t run on that.
I laughed. Yeah. Doesn’t matter where it’s hacked from, the terminal side or the main system.
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