Re: Hackers break into voting machines in 90 minutes

Newsgroups	comp.misc
From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Subject	Re: Hackers break into voting machines in 90 minutes
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Organization	blocknews - www.blocknews.net
Date	2017-08-01 01:32 +0000

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On 2017-07-31, Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> wrote:
> On 2017-07-30, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>> http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/344488-hackers-break-into-voting-machines-in-minutes-at-hacking-competition
>
> This demonstrates the insanity of connecting everything to the internet.
> With no internet connection and no easily-accessible ports these would
> be a lot harder to hack into. In fact one could make a good case for
> bringing back old-school mechanical voting machines.
>

Man, preach it brother.  The convenience of TCP/IP connected machines is
totally negated by the risk of fraud.  We'll have that tech when we build a
smarter and more secure network.  I love the Internet, but its inherent
flaws are really troublesome.

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Hackers break into voting machines in 90 minutes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-07-30 18:07 +0000
  Re: Hackers break into voting machines in 90 minutes Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2017-07-31 14:05 +0000
    Re: Hackers break into voting machines in 90 minutes RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-08-01 01:32 +0000

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