here is a good indication of the validity of 'our' elections;
An 11-year-old boy on Friday was able to hack into a replica of
the Florida state election website and change voting results found there
in under 10 minutes during the world’s largest yearly hacking
convention, DEFCON 26, organizers of the event said.
Thousands of adult hackers attend the convention annually, while this
year a group of children attempted to hack 13 imitation websites linked
to voting in presidential battleground states.
The boy, who was identified by DEFCON officials as Emmett Brewer,
accessed a replica of the Florida secretary of state’s website. He was
one of about 50 children between the ages of 8 and 16 who were taking
part in the so-called “DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village,” a portion
of which allowed kids the chance to manipulate party names, candidate
names and vote count totals.
Nico Sell, the co-founder of the the non-profit r00tz Asylum, which
teaches children how to become hackers and helped organize the event,
said an 11-year-old girl also managed to make changes to the same
Florida replica website in about 15 minutes, tripling the number of
votes found there.
Sell said more than 30 children hacked a variety of other similar state replica websites in under a half hour.
“These are very accurate replicas of all of the sites,” Sell
told the PBS NewsHour on Sunday. “These things should not be easy
enough for an 8-year-old kid to hack within 30 minutes, it’s negligent
for us as a society.”
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