An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida's Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention. Discuss.

[Uncle Joe]

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In another area of DEFCON, organizers set up a semicircle of computers preloaded with copies of secretaries of states’ websites to allow young children to try to alter the appearance of a vote result. While such an attack wouldn’t change actual votes, simply changing the appearance could cause havoc on Election Day, and reflects a tactic Russia did employ in Ukraine in 2014.

Notably, the kids were instructed to use a simple database hacking tactic called SQL injection, the same tool the US has said Russian hackers used when targeting state voter registration databases in the summer of 2016.

Within a few minutes, Audrey, 11, had figured it out, and made it appear that libertarian candidate Darrell Castle had won Florida’s presidential vote in 2016.

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Once she accessed that vote database, it was quick: “It took maybe a minute or so, because I’m a fast typer,” she told BuzzFeed News. “You can [subtract] points, you can do whatever you want.”

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevincollier/voting-hackers-defcon-failures-manufacturers-ess

[Wellstone ruled]

1. This is the real story you will not find

on any MSM or local News Rag. Yesterday it was a kid turning one of these into a Juke Box.

America,are we awake yet? Not!!!!

[Igel]

5. The kid hacked a website.

If a BOE is storing all its data in its web interface, we have far more serious issues than a kiddie hacker tweaking a webpage.

My school takes its online gradebooks more seriously.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Hmmm,

Vegas Journal Review claims it was a Tabulator that was hacked. And the Kiddie used a SQL program. If it was something different then Sheldon Adelson's Newspaper was wrong.

Could be.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Eleven-year-old Audrey ... i.e. a girl ...

Uglicans still think woman shouldn't vote, and here the women of the future have learned they can decide the vote for everyone -- chew on that, Uglicans.

[Uncle Joe]

3. ...

[appalachiablue]

4. K & R. Amazing! thanks for posting.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

7. I knew the Rick Scott wins were hinky

He has the dough to pay to play