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An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes (2018)
PBS NEWSHOUR ^ | Aug 12, 2018 | Michael D. Regan

Posted on 12/23/2020 2:47:19 PM PST by hiho hiho

An 11-year-old boy on Friday was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes during the world’s largest yearly hacking convention, DEFCON 26, organizers of the event said.

The boy, who was identified by DEFCON officials as Emmett Brewer, accessed a replica of the Florida secretary of state’s website. He was one of about 50 children between the ages of 8 and 16 who were taking part in the so-called “DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village,” a portion of which allowed kids the chance to manipulate party names, candidate names and vote count totals.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
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1 posted on 12/23/2020 2:47:19 PM PST by hiho hiho
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To: hiho hiho

Stupid stunt. A replica ain’t the same as the real thing.


2 posted on 12/23/2020 2:48:06 PM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: dinodino

Yep, this about sums up the quality of pbs reporting .....


3 posted on 12/23/2020 2:59:11 PM PST by qwerty1234
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To: dinodino

And the website doesn’t mean anything.


4 posted on 12/23/2020 3:02:31 PM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: dinodino

Webster: Replica - a copy, exact in all details

Oxford: Replica - an exact copy or model of something, especially one on a smaller scale.

“...ain’t the same as the real thing”. You iz right, t’ain’t!


5 posted on 12/23/2020 3:06:16 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: hiho hiho

So simple, a child could do it!


6 posted on 12/23/2020 3:12:20 PM PST by lee martell
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To: hiho hiho

l8r


7 posted on 12/23/2020 3:14:24 PM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: dinodino
Stupid stunt. A replica ain’t the same as the real thing.

Absolutely, there is no way these election machines could have been manipulated to change the votes from Trump to Biden.........

8 posted on 12/23/2020 3:14:29 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: wattojawa

Ping


9 posted on 12/23/2020 3:25:06 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: hiho hiho

We had since the sh*tshow of 2000 to make the American voting system work correctly,streamlined and fraud proof. The left vowed to get revenge and it all started with Moveon.org. I love how people care on our side now.


10 posted on 12/23/2020 3:29:11 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: dinodino

True but any 11 year old is superior in knowledge to any liberal. He did it on his own in under 10 minutes.

Liberals have been working this for the past 4 years.


11 posted on 12/23/2020 3:35:03 PM PST by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: hiho hiho

DeSantis has done a lot since 2018, and Florida probably had the best elections of all the states this time around.


12 posted on 12/23/2020 4:24:04 PM PST by livius
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To: Hot Tabasco

UH HUH!


13 posted on 12/23/2020 5:40:22 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: dinodino
"Stupid stunt. A replica ain’t the same as the real thing."

Dumb@$$3d remark. You misunderstand the precision of software replication.

14 posted on 12/23/2020 7:00:38 PM PST by TXnMA (The Democrat Party has a single-element strategy: CHEATING... Reinstate Public Executions!)
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To: TXnMA

Actually, I’m a software engineer. I remember when this “hacking” was first done. The site that was “hacked” was just a facsimile of the front-end, with none of the backend implemented.


15 posted on 12/24/2020 2:45:15 AM PST by dinodino ( )
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