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This year, the Voting Village featured nearly four dozen machines, and, again, their vulnerabilities were on full display.

For last year’s conference, Braun and his colleagues purchased roughly two dozen voting machines from government auction sites and eBay, and every single one was successfully hacked, some within minutes. Def Con would bring more than twenty-five-thousand of the most avid hackers in the world together, jamming the halls of Caesars Palace, and organizers saw an opportunity to show the American public, still reeling from news of Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, how easily voting machines could be compromised. Last year, Braun and a group of other cybersecurity researchers created Def Con’s first-ever Voting Village, a conference within the conference, devoted to election security and its evil twin, election insecurity.

“A nation-state is literally hacking our democracy-wouldn’t you want to take any help you could possibly get? If they don’t think that the Russians are not doing what we’re doing here all year, as opposed to just a weekend, then they are fucking idiots, right?” One of the organizers, Jake Braun, rolled his eyes when I asked him about the association’s letter. The day the conference began, as programmers were finishing coding the sites, the National Association of Secretaries of State issued a press release complaining that Def Con “utilizes a pseudo environment which in no way replicates state election systems, networks, or physical security.” That was true enough-these sites were only look-alikes-but they were constructed from data scraped from the actual state sites, and contained known vulnerabilities that had been exploited by hackers in the past. Lewis was visiting an event at the conference run by R00tz Asylum, a nonprofit that teaches hacking to kids, where organizers had replicated thirteen Secretary of State Web sites and invited kids to hack them.
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“First, you open the site,” she explained, “then you type a few lines of code into the search bar, and you can delete things and change votes. She’d already surreptitiously entered the site’s database through what is known as an SQL injection.

Play nice, support each other and encourage learning.Earlier this month, Bianca Lewis, who is eleven years old, was wearing a T-shirt printed with the words “No time for Barbie, there’s hacking to be done” and sitting in front of a computer at the annual Def Con hacking conference, in Las Vegas, meddling with a replica of the Florida Secretary of State’s election Web site. We are not tech support, these posts should be kept on /r/techsupportĭon't be a dick. Low-effort content will be removed at moderator discretion from security firms/pen testing companies is allowed within the confines of site-wide rules on self promotion found here, but will otherwise be considered spam. Spam is strictly forbidden and will result in a ban. Sharing of personal data is forbidden - no doxxing or IP dumping No "I got hacked" posts unless it's an interesting post-mortem of a unique attack. "How does HSTS prevent SSL stripping?" is a good question. Intermediate questions are welcomed - e.g.
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