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xiphias ([personal profile] xiphias) wrote2012-03-02 11:30 am

By rights, the following headline ought to be the Onion or the Borowitz Report. But it's not.

Election hacked, drunken robot elected to school board

The actual paper is here, if you want to read the actual conference proceedings:
https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/dcvoting-fc12.pdf

In short, DC did a test-run of their voting system, and white-hat hackers were invited to test it.

The degree to which the system failed, and what the white-hats did is absolutely HYSTERICAL.

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