UC Scientists Release Voting Machine Hacking Video

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: September 16, 2008 7:41:41 AM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] UC Scientists Release Voting Machine Hacking  
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UC Scientists Release Voting Machine Hacking Video
By Brad Friedman, Brad Blog
Posted on September 10, 2008
<http://www.alternet.org/story/98320/>
The Computer Security Group at the University of California Santa  
Barbara (UCSB) has released a short, chilling video demonstrating how  
a single person can hack an election on a touch-screen voting system  
-- even one with a so-called "Voter Verifiable Paper Trail" (VVPAT)  
added to it -- in such a way that it is highly unlikely that the  
manipulation would ever be detected by either the public or election  
officials.

The video, which shows "just examples of the different ways in which  
the system can be compromised" is the latest in a similar string of  
such demonstrations that have been released over the last two years,  
all showing how easily electronic voting systems can be tampered with,  
often undetectably.

In the UCSB video posted below, the hack of Sequoia voting system  
being prepared for use in an entire county, is done in approximately 3  
seconds, by a single person with simple insider access and a $10 USB  
thumb drive. Every machine used in the county, in such a case, would  
be effected. Moreover, the viral hack would not be discovered by pre- 
election "Logic and Accuracy" testing -- in cases were election  
officials actually bother to perform such tests prior to elections --  
nor would it likely be discovered even in the event of a complete,  
100% post-election audit of the touch-screen "paper-trail" records.

The hack demonstration, prepared by the UCSB scientists as part of  
California's 2007"Top-to-Bottom Review" of all of the state's e-voting  
systems, also reveals how so-called "security seals" placed on such  
machines after they've been programmed for an election, can be easily  
defeated without detection ...

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Videos at: Part 1 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWDEZqqqBHE>  Part 2  
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moEsgdzZ19c>
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