[liberationtech] Fwd: [peoplecount] Encryption no deterent to hackers of voting machines (fwd)

[Sheila Parks]

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Sheila



>Comments from the team that hacked Washington D.C.'s now-mothballed
>internet voting system.
>
>"We modified all the ballots that had already been
>cast to contain write-in votes for candidates we
>selected. (Although the system encrypts voted
>ballots, we simply discarded the encrypted files
>and replaced them with different ones that we
>encrypted using the same key.) We also rigged the
>system to replace future votes in the same way.
>
>"We installed a back door that let us view any
>ballots that voters cast after our attack. This
>modification recorded the votes, in unencrypted
>form, together with the names of the voters who
>cast them, violating ballot secrecy."
>
>[ From "Hacked Voting System Stored Accessible Password, Encryption Key"
>http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/voting-system-hacked/ ]
>
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Sheila Parks, Ed.D.
Founder
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