How to hack the upcoming Dutch elections and how hackers could have since 2009

Posted by dikkechill on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:59PM
from the sijmen.ruwhof.net dept.

https://sijmen.ruwhof.net/weblog/1166-how-to-hack-the-upcoming-dutch-elections

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Re:How to hack the upcoming Dutch elections and how hackers ... by throwaway2016a on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:19PM (#13527252)

To answer the question:

You change the SHA1 hash of the voting data in both the PDF and the XML filename. As long as the user is not verifying against a paper printout this attack will work.

Everything else in this article is secondary.

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Re:How to hack the upcoming Dutch elections and how hackers ... by gpvos on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:03PM (#13554058)

Well, that's funny: Firefox tells me that "Your connection is not secure. The website tried to negotiate an inadequate level of security."

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