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A comment on DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastr... by hvdhh7 on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:36PM (#18117029)
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."

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Re:DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastr... by ganoushoreilly on Monday October 01, 2018 @06:18PM (#18117290)
Right!! It's like saying you could DoS a car by removing it's spark plugs.
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