US voting systems: Full of holes, loaded with pop music, and ‘hacked’ by an 11-year-old


DEF CON Hackers of all ages have been investigating America’s voting machine tech, and the results weren’t great.

For instance, one 11-year-old apparently managed to hack and alter a simulated Secretary of State election results webpage in 10 minutes.

The Vote Hacking Village, one of the most packed-out locations at this year’s DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas, saw many of the most commonly used US voting machines hijacked using a variety of wireless and wired attacks – and replica election websites so poorly constructed they were thought too boring for adults to probe, and left to youngsters to infiltrate.

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Source: The Register