jbluhm86 Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/344488-hackers-break-into-voting-machines-in-minutes-at-hacking-competition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 Thus proving Trump right, or something. No, our govt. isn't great at things like technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbluhm86 Posted July 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 Thus proving Trump right, or something. No, our govt. isn't great at things like technology The US are world leaders in technology, but being great often leads to hubris. If a bunch of computer nerds at a nerd con are capable of breaking into voting machines for shits n' giggles, then how far out of the realm of possibility is it for foreign governments or actors hostile to the US to do the same? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 Or even worse... Liberals! Yes, the tech is old. But again, our govt. is bad at this stuff. Get the experts in charge and not the politicians Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbedward Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 I won't use an electronic voting machine until they start using a secure solution. Your vote may not count for much anyway, but you have basically no way of knowing if it really counted as you intended it to with most voting machines. I've stated the solution before but here it is again: 1) Blockchain Makes it essentially impossible to retroactively go back and change a transaction (a vote in this case) Makes information (votes in this case) easily auditable and verifiable. 2) Open source voting software Then anybody including the voting public can inspect it. The blockchain is incredibly secure and verifiable and can't be changed and all that - but it still doesn't protect against the possibility of the software picking B when the voter wanted to pick A. --- There's a company that has built a prototype already that is both of those things. The only issue I haven't seen addressed is that even though the software is open source, how can you know that the software on the machine is the same as the code posted on the internet somewhere. Probably would need include some kind of checksum information on the blockchain or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 The elections are all a sham. You sheep have been lead to believe you decide anything. Keep being fools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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