Hacking a voting machine for fun and political profit

by Matt Burns on September 13, 2008

This hack isn’t something that you, as a random voter, could initiate on November 4, 2008. The video will not show you how to go into the booth and hit a random pixel on the touchscreen to access a secret voter override menu. Nope, this hack requires classic social engineering along a trojan horse loaded onto the initializing PC before the Sequoia Voting kiosk hits the polling locations. Hopefully, like most hacking exploits videos, the documentary will shed light on the vulnerabilities rather than incite malicious attacks. If not, what’s the worse that could happen?

whiskey - September 14th, 2008 at 12:52 am PDT

If not, what’s the worse that could happen?

Uh, I don’t know… Florida, Florida, Florida?

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space - September 15th, 2008 at 2:16 pm PDT

check “Hacking Democracy” on Google Video (when it is available again) A hacker hacks a diebold machine and more.

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Gabemac - September 16th, 2008 at 6:14 am PDT

One has to ask whether or not to bring back the Chad. Thanks for this post, I talked about it on my show today.
http://tinyurl.com/6avo37

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