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RE: 11-Year-Old Hacks A State Election Replica Website In Under 10 Minutes At DEFCON
was anyone still under the impression that these systems were secure?
"While it is undeniable websites are vulnerable to hackers, election night reporting websites are only used to publish preliminary, unofficial results for the public and the media. The sites are not connected to vote-counting equipment and could never change actual election result"
But if people don't know who others voted for how will they know who to vote for? ;)
This is about creating distrust and paranoia. People who will get in there will sow distrust of the governmental official pages. If I were anyone in state government, I would be hardening these pages. This is as bad as buying votes.
I don't think the hacker kids want to create distrust and paranoia, just perhaps to highlight a vulnerability.
No it has nothing to do with the kids.
did you read the article?