Comments on: Hacking The Automated Election System

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Hacking the polls « Diarito's Blog — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:48:57 +0000

[...] Smartmatic, however, affirms that their machines are unhackable. (read here) [...]

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Hacking the polls « Diarito Blogs — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:52:47 +0000

[...] April 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment As election day nears, all the dirty tricks in political camapigns appear- from black propaganda to cheating. With the advent of automated elections, a group of scientists have proven that they can hack and steal votes in an electronic voting machines. According to Science Daily, a team of scientists from University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University hacked a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes. Computer scientist, Hovav Shacham, who had no access to the machine’s source code, found a flaw on the voting machine software. They demonstrated how it can be controlled to steal votes by using “return-oriented programming.” (read here) They exposed the vulnerabilities of the machine by using a cartridge that changes the total number of votes by inserting into an unused port in the ma- chine. The hacker then navigates the machine’s menus to let the malicious software control the machine silently. Smartmatic, however, affirms that their machines are unhackable. (read here) [...]

By: Jovy

Jovy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:11:37 +0000

As long as it was online through internet, It would be vulnerable in any kind of attack such as SQL(Structured Query Language)injection/Bruteforce method attacks/sniff/remote access/Remote Administrative Tool (RAT) or I’d rather say etc. coz there’s a lot of ways to access computers,white hat/black hat hacker is no necessary,the important is the result,There’s no secured in the internet, and i would like to tell you all, the most secured computer is the one which is not connected on the Internet and it was turned off with a lots of security guard around it and it was inside the concrete barrier sealed with iron with high voltage.

By: Filo

Filo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:28:43 +0000

The way I see it, those who keep voicing out that automated elections are hackable and easily cheated are serving as mouthpieces of politicians who stand to lose under such system because the usual tools at their disposal under non-automated elections could not be applied.

I’d give more credibility to these “concerned” figures if they’d (not only speak of possible problems of automated elections, but also)as enthusiastically and as loudly propose realistic methods to cheatproof traditional non-automated elections. But they don’t.

So I don’t believe they are sincere even a little bit. All they do is cast doubt on technology that should be supported, not undermined. If and when these people’s candidate/s win under the automated system, I’d like to see these same people say “This was rigged!” And they won’t do it, paid hacks that they are.