An 11-Year-Old Changed the Results of Florida's Presidential Vote at DEFCON
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#2lol, anyone in the trenches of computering thinks electronic voting is terrible. I don’t even trust electronic vote tabulation.
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#3> “If you’re saying ‘even a kid can hack into this,’ you’re not getting the full story, which can have the impact of the average voter not understanding,” Manfra told BuzzFeed News.
BuzzFeed's headline: "An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida's Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention."
If all you see is the headline, that's exactly the impression you're going to get. Lampshading it halfway through the article doesn't counteract that.
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#4Awful title.
>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 .... Notably, the kids were instructed to use a simple database hacking tactic called SQL injection .... 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.
The discussion about the vulnerability and the unwillingness of the companies to secure them was more important.
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#5The headline is a bit sensationalist.
There was a SQL backed lab setup with loaded results from Secretary of States websites, for kids to attempt SQL injection attacks.
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#6I've noticed now it's become almost accepted knowledge among the general public that Russia literally hacked election machines and changed votes. Even this article appears to present that view in the first couple paragraphs before finally stating otherwise halfway through.
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#7Just popping in here to say happy birthday to George Soros who owns some of these FL machines!
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#8lol, anyone in the trenches of computering thinks electronic voting is terrible. I don’t even trust electronic vote tabulation.
I dont
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#9How seriously can we take an article that refers to Windows 4.1?
(100% against voting machines, but this article doesn't seem to know what it's talking about.)
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#10> “If you’re saying ‘even a kid can hack into this,’ you’re not getting the full story, which can have the impact of the average voter not understanding,” Manfra told BuzzFeed News. BuzzFeed's headline: "An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida's Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention." If all you see is the headline, that's exactly the impression you're going to get. Lampshading it halfway through the article…
The title is definitely just meant to get the click. Something I came to expect from any website with Buzzfeed in the name.