An 11-Year-Old Hacked Into a U.S. Voting System Replica in 10 Minutes This Weekend and CHANGED results

[phands]

But don't worry...the gop shot down a bill for increased election security spending a couple of weeks ago.

A particularly alarming hack was carried out at the DEFCON hackathon conference over the weekend by an 11-year-old boy.
He managed to hack into an imitation Florida state voting website and change the results of the “election” in fewer than 10 minutes.
DEFCON is the world’s larger hacker conference held annually in Las Vegas, where hackers and cyber security experts try to break into all kinds of computer security systems, highlighting how easy it can be to manipulate software and hardware. At this year’s conference, DefCon added children to its list of those invited, specifically to try to hack websites in the DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village, a part of the hackathon that includes “13 imitation websites linked to voting in presidential battleground states,” according to PBS.

More than one succeeded.
Emmett Brewer, the 11-year-old who successfully hacked the replicated Florida voting site, wasn’t the only child who got into the election systems at the conference. In total, about 50 kids ranging in age from 8 to 16 attended the conference, DEFCON said in a tweet, and around 30 of them were able to hack into the imitation election websites.

http://time.com/5366171/11-year-old-hacked-into-us-voting-system-10-minutes/

 

[Worldtraveller]

But don't worry...the gop shot down a bill for increased election security spending a couple of weeks ago.

[FONT=&]A particularly alarming hack was carried out at the DEFCON hackathon conference over the weekend by an 11-year-old boy.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]He managed to hack into an imitation Florida state voting website and change the results of the “election” in fewer than 10 minutes.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]DEFCON is the world’s larger hacker conference held annually in Las Vegas, where hackers and cyber security experts try to break into all kinds of computer security systems, highlighting how easy it can be to manipulate software and hardware. At this year’s conference, DefCon added children to its list of those invited, specifically to try to hack websites in the DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village, a part of the hackathon that includes “13 imitation websites linked to voting in presidential battleground states,” according to PBS.[/FONT]
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More than one succeeded.[/FONT]
Emmett Brewer, the 11-year-old who successfully hacked the replicated Florida voting site, wasn’t the only child who got into the election systems at the conference. In total, about 50 kids ranging in age from 8 to 16 attended the conference, DEFCON said in a tweet, and around 30 of them were able to hack into the imitation election websites.

http://time.com/5366171/11-year-old-hacked-into-us-voting-system-10-minutes/

What we need are more 11 year olds with guns.

Wait, what were we talking about again?

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

But don't worry...the gop shot down a bill for increased election security spending a couple of weeks ago.

[FONT=&]A particularly alarming hack was carried out at the DEFCON hackathon conference over the weekend by an 11-year-old boy.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]He managed to hack into an imitation Florida state voting website and change the results of the “election” in fewer than 10 minutes.[/FONT]
[FONT=&]DEFCON is the world’s larger hacker conference held annually in Las Vegas, where hackers and cyber security experts try to break into all kinds of computer security systems, highlighting how easy it can be to manipulate software and hardware. At this year’s conference, DefCon added children to its list of those invited, specifically to try to hack websites in the DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village, a part of the hackathon that includes “13 imitation websites linked to voting in presidential battleground states,” according to PBS.[/FONT]
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More than one succeeded.[/FONT]
Emmett Brewer, the 11-year-old who successfully hacked the replicated Florida voting site, wasn’t the only child who got into the election systems at the conference. In total, about 50 kids ranging in age from 8 to 16 attended the conference, DEFCON said in a tweet, and around 30 of them were able to hack into the imitation election websites.

http://time.com/5366171/11-year-old-hacked-into-us-voting-system-10-minutes/

What we need are more 11 year olds with guns.

Wait, what were we talking about again?

The way to stop a bad hacker with a computer is to have a good hacker with a computer.

 

[ZiprHead]

Did he hack into a website reporting the results but not the voting machine itself? I would assume there is a big difference.

BTW, Phands, the "Florida state voting website" link in your quote above looks to be wrong.