Wuwei
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- Apr 18, 2015
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I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear. It was not clandestine. It was a planned demonstration of vulnerability prior to the election. It was done to show the election officials the system in their state was not safe from hacking. In principle the drives could be hacked by an unsafe computer prior to being sent to the precinct.So the hacker just walked up to the voting machine like a Ninja and wasn't seen by anyone. I see. In my precinct each voter is escorted to the voting machine by a poll worker.The particular voting machine for that state used a thumb drive to save the election results - just data. The hacker put a program on the data drive that changed the data before the drive was pulled out.What did the hacker hack into?I think there is a good possibility that some places that are vulnerable will be hacked. A US hacker has demonstrated a few years ago how it can be done while being witnessed by a few election officials. One woman who thought hacking was not possible was in tears when she saw it happen.
However I ceased being too concerned because I'm resigned to the fact that bad things happen in many phases of the election process.