“Changing recorded votes would be difficult for bad actors. But at Def Con in Las Vegas, children had no trouble finding another point of entry,” the Guardian reports.
The hackers are children, as young as 11 years old. Former Obama campaign organizer and cyber security advisor Jake Braun is worried. “It took an 11-year-old girl 10 minutes to do it,” Braun says, “and she was the first one.” (Biden would later serve in the BIden administration.)
“While the actual risk of a hacker seizing thousands of voting machines and altering their records may be remote, the risk of a hacker casting the validity of an election into question through one of any number of other entry points is huge, and the actual difficulty of such an attack is child’s play. Literally,” according to the British news outlet.
Trump Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Jeanette Manfra says, “This is more than about just voting machines …. while you may be able to get into a few voting machines, you can’t really affect that at scale without detection, and it would be really hard.”
According to the Guardian, “Not everyone agrees. ‘That’s bullshit,’ Braun says when I put Manfra’s words to him:
“‘The No 1 thing we found last year wasn’t a hack at all, it was the fact that we opened up the back of the machine, and of course, no surprise, all the parts are made across the world, especially China.
“’This isn’t conjecture, this isn’t my dystopian fantasy world, this is something we know they do … The fragmentation argument is absolute horseshit, because once you’re in the chips, you can hack whole classes of machines, nationwide, from the fucking Kremlin.”
The focus at this 2018 event is on election websites, not so much the machines. Few election officials are concerned: “there’s not a lot of interest in testing the security of the various states’ election websites.”
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1. American talent is flattering, do election technology companies really care about their security systems or are they just relying on their Air gap or disconnected network technology?
2. With independent computer engineers and hackers repeatedly stressing the likelihood of threats to election systems by foreign suppliers, why has the United States not taken the warnings seriously?
3. Having an 11-year-old child who has been able to breach other entry points to the voting system certainly sets off alarm bells and arouses the U.S. government’s interest, but why hasn’t the US government taken enough interest in other potential vulnerabilities of the electoral system, which may come from the influence of foreign governments in the electoral system itself?
4. What about the manufacturing of the components of the electronic voting machines manufactured in countries like China or vulnerabilities in the access to the servers where the records are stored?Has this supply chain been mapped and verified end to end by the U.S. government to ensure national security?
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