'Why I bought a voting machine on eBay' - the hackers protecting US election

[Willie Trombone]

'Why I bought a voting machine on eBay' - the hackers protecting US election

Volunteer hackers and security experts are working together to help protect the presidential election.

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"Earlier this year, I attended a conference and was shocked to find that you could actually buy voting machines on eBay. So I bought one, two months ago, and have been able to open it up and look at the chips."
Beatrice Atobatele is trying to hack one of the most commonly used voting machines in the US, to look for security vulnerabilities, but not with any criminal intentions.
Beatrice is actually one of more than 200 people who have signed up to a volunteer group of security experts and hackers called the Election Cyber Surge.

 

[Willie Trombone]

An acquaintance reckons little if anything has happened to secure these things. It sounds like these issues have been known since 2016 and before.

 

[LCBXX]

If the candidates were of a better caliber, on both sides, worries over voting machines would be irrelevant.

 

[Thor]

Hacking Democracy was a good documentary