Saturday, August 13, 2016

HOW TO HACK AN ELECTION IN 7 MINUTES

Clutching a screwdriver, he deftly wedged out the four ROM chips from the voting machine—they weren’t soldered into the circuit board, as sense might dictate—making it simple to replace them with one of his own: A version of modified firmware that could throw off the machine’s results, subtly altering the tally of votes, never to betray a hint to the voter. The attack was concluded in minutes.


 

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