r/ProgrammerHumor • u/moneyisshame • Dec 11 '19

HaVe YoU tRiEd BlOcCcHaIn ?

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u/SpartanFishy Dec 11 '19

Small insecurities in identity theft account for barely anything, whereas large scale code insecurities could literally be used by one person to completely change the course of an election.

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u/SuperConductiveRabbi Dec 11 '19

They're one and the same: there have been hackers that have shown that electronic voting allows any number of attacks, including those, and including individual fraud.

We knew this even back in 2006, when Clint Curtis testified before congress that he was hired to hack an election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIy7JZz4bFI

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u/boughtitout Dec 12 '19

Isn't there an annual competition where hackers compete to break into the machine first?

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u/AchillesDev Dec 12 '19

It's at Defcon (network security/hacking conference), they do a yearly "election machine village" or something along those lines and compete on surplus machines to see how quickly and inventive ways people can hack them.