DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016

Re:DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targe... by blackflame7001 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:55PM (#19639666)

Your comment makes no sense in context with the original article. Why would someone spend all the time and effort to hack voting machines when they can just walk up look at the list and pick a name without a signature and say yup thats me. Ive worked at a poll it just a list with peoples names sitting on a table

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Re:DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targe... by tomjakubowski on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:35PM (#19640379)

Those attacks don't scale at all and could only be a concern for local elections in small towns and the like.

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Re:DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targe... by blackflame7001 on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:06AM (#19642126)

Neither does machine tampering because they are not networked.

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Re:DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targe... by Nerdfest on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:04PM (#19649467)

One person with a USB key can change many votes on a single machine.

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Re:DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targe... by mikeash on Thursday April 11, 2019 @06:08PM (#19639764)

Because you have to be physically present in order to do that, and nobody wants to risk getting thrown in jail if they pick a name that’s already voted, or that the poll worker happens to know.

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Re:DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targe... by blackflame7001 on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:06AM (#19642129)

How else would you do it on a machine not connected to the internet?

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Re:DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targe... by mikeash on Friday April 12, 2019 @11:06AM (#19645413)

You could pull a Stuxnet and create malware that would spread over whatever devices are used to program the voting machines. I believe they typically just use standard USB thumb drives, and are notoriously insecure.

However, the article talks about "election systems" which encompasses much more than just voting machines. Voter registration records are a prime target and those are usually (always?) connected to the internet. You don't need to actually alter any votes to swing an election. Just delete or alter the registrations of some people who you know will tend to vote the other way.

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