Re:DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastr...
by hvdhh7 on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:36PM
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The first new attack described in last year's report was that you could DoS a machine by removing its CPU.
Which, sure, is something to think about. But it's not what I think people are imagining when you say "voting machine hacking."
Re:DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastr...
by ganoushoreilly on Monday October 01, 2018 @06:18PM
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Right!! It's like saying you could DoS a car by removing it's spark plugs.
I don't know any security professional that would tell you physical access isn't equal to the ability to hack a device.
The reality is subversion of people managing processes is of a higher probability that attacks of the machines themselves. It's also not unique to electronic voting, people are always the weak link in security and will always be the weak link.