We have been fans of e-voting machines, for a while now. We are yet to like them. Because we feel they are insecure.
But we have another story today. For a week, the D.C. Board of Elections & Ethics requested hacker of any color (Whitehat, Blackhat, grayhat) etc to find faults in the web based voting system, which was designed to allow some 950 military and overseas voters to cast ballots online. The officials were hoping to use it for the November election, for the first time.
Yes, it worked, University of Michigan fight song, called The Victors was uploaded to the site and made to play once ballot is submitted on the thank you page.
Officials promptly took the site down and a scaled-back version of the site was relaunched Tuesday. With a difference,
One could download the ballot but need to mail,fax or e-mail the vote!
Good one for the officials, security matters!
The Washington Times
WeSeePeople
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Washington DC e-Voting Website Hacked, No e-Voting!
Posted by ravenII at 4:12 PM
Labels: D.C. Board of Elections, e-voting, electronic voting, ElectronicVoting, hack, hacking, the victors, TheVictors, university of michigan, web based voting system
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment