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Why would it require tens of thousands of people? Again, if an election is close you can flip it with less than 100k votes. And even if you don't flip it, you

Why would it require tens of thousands of people? Again, if an election is close you can flip it with less than 100k votes. And even if you don't flip it, you can cast doubt on it's legitimacy if you leak some information showing what you did. The machines are generally stored in centralized locations that aren't particularly secure. If there are exploits that can be ran from a USB drive, one break in and you could hack machines that will be used by tens of thousands of voters. You could potentially pay off a security guard to let a few people in or just pay someone has access to the stored machines to do it for you. The CIA could definitely pull this off in another country, not sure why you think a foreign government couldn't do it here. We managed to load stuxnet onto airgapped embedded computers in a high security nuclear facility. Voting machines are easy compared to that. I have no idea why you think you need tens of thousands of people to install an exploit on a few thousand centrally stored computers, built and maintained by a few companies.

ThomPete 9y ago
You make it sound like those hacker movies where the bad guys have free access to networks and no security protocol around this. Voting machines in the us isn't easy compared to that at all. Irans security protocols are easy. As long as there is a paper trail you can't just hack the US election EVEN if you got into hacking the machine which is extremely unlikely. Unless you convinced thousands of people to be in on your scheme. It won't happen.
- learc83 9y ago
  >You make it sound like those hacker movies where the bad guys have free access to networks and no security protocol around this. Voting machines in the us isn't easy compared to that at all. Irans security protocols are easy. I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. >As long as there is a paper trail you can't just hack the US election What paper trails? There is no paper backup for many of state's election machines, that's the problem.

ThomPete 9y ago

You make it sound like those hacker movies where the bad guys have free access to networks and no security protocol around this. Voting machines in the us isn't easy compared to that at all. Irans security protocols are easy. As long as there is a paper trail you can't just hack the US election EVEN if you got into hacking the machine which is extremely unlikely. Unless you convinced thousands of people to be in on your scheme. It won't happen.

learc83 9y ago
>You make it sound like those hacker movies where the bad guys have free access to networks and no security protocol around this. Voting machines in the us isn't easy compared to that at all. Irans security protocols are easy. I'm sorry, but you have no idea what you're talking about. >As long as there is a paper trail you can't just hack the US election What paper trails? There is no paper backup for many of state's election machines, that's the problem.