The Argonne National Lab, which is run by the US Dept of Energy, has done what we have all seen before, years ago...their Vulnerability Assessment Team, http://www.ne.anl.gov/capabilities/vat/index.html has hacked into a Diebold Voting machine, this model being the Diebold Accuvote Touchscreen voting machine.
This feat was done with a chip that cost about $11. What is troubling is the fact that it can be done by anyone with a basic 8th grade understanding of science. What is even more troubling than that is the fact that the hacking can be done by remote control from as far off as half mile away!!
The experts at VAT have even been able to manipulate the paper trail that is printed by the machine so that no one will be the wiser that the vote has been changed. The shocking fact is that the hackers do not need to know or even manipulate the voting machine's software. The $11 chip is simply inserted into the machine and it is ready to be hacked...adding a $15 radio frequency remote control device now gives the hacker the convenience of doing the job from up to half a mile away.
This is the video that shows this hack...it will blow your mind!!! ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DMw2dn6K1oI.
This is disturbing on so many levels, it leaves me wondering if this technology can be used to remotely hack into more sensitive systems that could affect our Electrical Grid, our Traffic control systems, our water systems including our Dams etc. In this new era of hacking and terrorism, when we don't even have to manipulate software...I think we are really in new and unexplored territory.
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The GOP has instituted a nationwide voter suppression effort, and their minions have insisted that Diebold handle the votes that are allowed to be cast. What could go wrong? Didn't Stalin say, "He who votes decides nothing. He who counts the votes decides everything."???
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So true Squatlo, so true...
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