If an 11 year old can change v**es, why not the Russians (Republicans) same thing
Aug 14, 2018 21:37:09 #
This is probably why the polls said Trump would lose, but somehow he won. The Russians elected our President.
The government wouldn't want to make that public even if it knew it happened.
An 11-year-old changed e******n results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes
Nation Aug 12, 2018 5:00 PM EDT
An 11-year-old boy on Friday was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state e******n website and change v****g results found there in under 10 minutes during the world’s largest yearly hacking convention, DEFCON 26, organizers of the event said.
Thousands of adult hackers attend the convention annually, while this year a group of children attempted to hack 13 imitation websites linked to v****g in p**********l battleground states.
The boy, who was identified by DEFCON officials as Emmett Brewer, accessed a replica of the Florida secretary of state’s website. He was one of about 50 children between the ages of 8 and 16 who were taking part in the so-called “DEFCON V****g Machine Hacking Village,” a portion of which allowed kids the chance to manipulate party names, candidate names and v**e count totals.
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Nico Sell, the co-founder of the the non-profit r00tz Asylum, which teaches children how to become hackers and helped organize the event, said an 11-year-old girl also managed to make changes to the same Florida replica website in about 15 minutes, tripling the number of v**es found there.
Sell said more than 30 children hacked a variety of other similar state replica websites in under a half hour.
“These are very accurate replicas of all of the sites,” Sell told the PBS NewsHour on Sunday. “These things should not be easy enough for an 8-year-old kid to hack within 30 minutes, it’s negligent for us as a society.”
Sell said the idea for the event began last year, after adult hackers were able to access similar v****g sites in less than five minutes.
“So this year we decided to bring the v****g village to the kids as well,” she said.
About 50 children participated in the DEFCON hacking event for children on Friday and Saturday. More than 30 of them were able to hack into replicas of secretaries of states, where v**e tallies are posted. Photo courtesy of r00tz Asylum
In a statement regarding the event, the National Association of Secretaries of State said it is “ready to work with civic-minded members of the DEFCON community wanting to become part of a proactive team effort to secure our e******ns.” But the organization expressed skepticism over the hackers’ abilities to access the actual state websites.
“It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols,” it read. “While it is undeniable websites are vulnerable to hackers, e******n night reporting websites are only used to publish preliminary, unofficial results for the public and the media. The sites are not connected to v**e counting equipment and could never change actual e******n results.”’
But Sell said the exercise the children took part in demonstrates the level of security vulnerabilities found in the U.S. e******n system.
“To me that statement says that the secretaries of states are not taking this seriously. Although it’s not the real v****g results it’s the results that get released to the public. And that could cause complete chaos,” she said. “The site may be a replica but the vulnerabilities that these kids were exploiting were not replicas, they’re the real thing.”
“I think the general public does not understand how large a threat this is, and how serious a situation that we’re in right now with our democracy,” she said.
Matt Blaze, a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania who helped organize the “hacking village,” said that thousands of adults including v****g security experts also tried to access v****g machines and other v****g software currently being used in U.S. e******ns today to become “more knowledgeable about v**er technology.”
He also noted that the children who participated in their own challenge last week were dealing with replicas that were in many cases created to be even more formidable to access than the actual websites used by secretaries of states across the nation.
“It’s not surprising that these precocious, bright kids would be able to do it because the websites that are on the internet are vulnerable, we know they are vulnerable,” he said. “What was interesting is just how utterly quickly they were able to do it.”
The government wouldn't want to make that public even if it knew it happened.
An 11-year-old changed e******n results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes
Nation Aug 12, 2018 5:00 PM EDT
An 11-year-old boy on Friday was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state e******n website and change v****g results found there in under 10 minutes during the world’s largest yearly hacking convention, DEFCON 26, organizers of the event said.
Thousands of adult hackers attend the convention annually, while this year a group of children attempted to hack 13 imitation websites linked to v****g in p**********l battleground states.
The boy, who was identified by DEFCON officials as Emmett Brewer, accessed a replica of the Florida secretary of state’s website. He was one of about 50 children between the ages of 8 and 16 who were taking part in the so-called “DEFCON V****g Machine Hacking Village,” a portion of which allowed kids the chance to manipulate party names, candidate names and v**e count totals.
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Nico Sell, the co-founder of the the non-profit r00tz Asylum, which teaches children how to become hackers and helped organize the event, said an 11-year-old girl also managed to make changes to the same Florida replica website in about 15 minutes, tripling the number of v**es found there.
Sell said more than 30 children hacked a variety of other similar state replica websites in under a half hour.
“These are very accurate replicas of all of the sites,” Sell told the PBS NewsHour on Sunday. “These things should not be easy enough for an 8-year-old kid to hack within 30 minutes, it’s negligent for us as a society.”
Sell said the idea for the event began last year, after adult hackers were able to access similar v****g sites in less than five minutes.
“So this year we decided to bring the v****g village to the kids as well,” she said.
About 50 children participated in the DEFCON hacking event for children on Friday and Saturday. More than 30 of them were able to hack into replicas of secretaries of states, where v**e tallies are posted. Photo courtesy of r00tz Asylum
In a statement regarding the event, the National Association of Secretaries of State said it is “ready to work with civic-minded members of the DEFCON community wanting to become part of a proactive team effort to secure our e******ns.” But the organization expressed skepticism over the hackers’ abilities to access the actual state websites.
“It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols,” it read. “While it is undeniable websites are vulnerable to hackers, e******n night reporting websites are only used to publish preliminary, unofficial results for the public and the media. The sites are not connected to v**e counting equipment and could never change actual e******n results.”’
But Sell said the exercise the children took part in demonstrates the level of security vulnerabilities found in the U.S. e******n system.
“To me that statement says that the secretaries of states are not taking this seriously. Although it’s not the real v****g results it’s the results that get released to the public. And that could cause complete chaos,” she said. “The site may be a replica but the vulnerabilities that these kids were exploiting were not replicas, they’re the real thing.”
“I think the general public does not understand how large a threat this is, and how serious a situation that we’re in right now with our democracy,” she said.
Matt Blaze, a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania who helped organize the “hacking village,” said that thousands of adults including v****g security experts also tried to access v****g machines and other v****g software currently being used in U.S. e******ns today to become “more knowledgeable about v**er technology.”
He also noted that the children who participated in their own challenge last week were dealing with replicas that were in many cases created to be even more formidable to access than the actual websites used by secretaries of states across the nation.
“It’s not surprising that these precocious, bright kids would be able to do it because the websites that are on the internet are vulnerable, we know they are vulnerable,” he said. “What was interesting is just how utterly quickly they were able to do it.”
Aug 15, 2018 00:38:08 #
Geoober wrote:
This is probably why the polls said Trump would lo... (show quote)
You busted us, Goober.
The Russians hacked the e******n and changed your v**e to favor Trump.
Too late now though Goober, it's done and Trump is POTUS.
Oh and don't forget he's a r****t, misogynist, h********c billionaire playboy and international businessman.
You're welcome to impeach him if you can.
Good luck...................... Goober
Aug 15, 2018 09:27:01 #
Aug 15, 2018 12:11:54 #
Geo wrote:
This is probably why the polls said Trump would lo... (show quote)
Russian does not nor has it ever equaled Republican. Democrat would be more likely.
Aug 15, 2018 12:18:36 #
Wolf counselor wrote:
You busted us, Goober.
The Russians hacked the e******n and changed your v**e to favor Trump.
Too late now though Goober, it's done and Trump is POTUS.
Oh and don't forget he's a r****t, misogynist, h********c billionaire playboy and international businessman.
You're welcome to impeach him if you can.
Good luck...................... Goober
The Russians hacked the e******n and changed your v**e to favor Trump.
Too late now though Goober, it's done and Trump is POTUS.
Oh and don't forget he's a r****t, misogynist, h********c billionaire playboy and international businessman.
You're welcome to impeach him if you can.
Good luck...................... Goober
And of course you will be just as cavalier about it when Russians retaliate and get behind electing a democrat?
Aug 15, 2018 12:52:28 #
Geo wrote:
Replica websites??? Imitation websites???This is probably why the polls said Trump would lo... (show quote)
The DEFCON community ... expressed skepticism over the hackers’ abilities to access the actual state websites.It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols. While it is undeniable websites are vulnerable to hackers, e******n night reporting websites are only used to publish preliminary, unofficial results for the public and the media. The sites are not connected to v**e counting equipment and could never change actual e******n results.
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