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

[Yosem Companys]

Thanks for sending, Sheila.  Very interesting.

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Sheila Parks
<sheilaruthparks at comcast.net>wrote:

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> I am very eager to hear what you have to say about hand-counting all our
> votes in elections and why and how.  Again, see the Center web site, below
> Sheila
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>  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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