I’m a strong advocate that everyone should vote, but wouldn’t it be awesome if you could make your vote count more than once? Or, even better, change other people’s votes to be for your candidate?
Well I got good news for ya…you might just be able to do that. Now that we’re using designed and insecure electronic voting machines, some simple hacking can change everything! And thanks to some researchers at Princeton, anyone can be a voting machine hacker.
And I’ll show you how…
I’m a big fan of the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy. They’ve published a report detailing the security vulnerabilities of the Sequoia e-voting machines and exactly how they hacked them. It turns out you just need to replace a single ROM chip, a process that takes about 7 minutes.
So basically all you have to do it tell the 67 year old poll workers that you’re undecided and need to really think about it in the booth.
Even better? Once you install fraudulent firmware on one machine, it can virally spread itself to other machines, meaning you can commit widespread voter fraud across your entire state by just messing with one single machine.
How sweet is that?!?!?!? And it’ll keep propagating itself, effecting the next election as well, and the election after that. It’s really a gift that keeps on giving!
Oh, and that fraudulent firmware? It’s a mere 122 lines of code and took them 2 days to write. They say that anyone with a computer science background could cook it up pretty easily.
Good to see our education system is hard at work!!!
Tags: election, hacked, Sequoia e-voting machines, votes, worldgaming
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