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Washington DC online voting hack contest suspended early
- maukdaddy 16y agoTraditional media headline FTW: Hacker infiltration ends D.C. online voting trial
- Splines 16y agoIsn't this the wrong way to go about securing a system? It's better than nothing I suppose, but black hats aren't going to tell you when they've found a vulnerability. On the flip side, there's no guarantee that the right set of folks are looking at the system (thankfully, that doesn't seem to be the case here).
- eru 16y agoIf you are explicitly putting out a system for tests, you aren't only attracting black hats. (Actually you will discourage black hats, since they don't want to show their methods when they are of no use.)
- TimMontague 16y agoHere's an article by one of the researchers with much more information about the vulnerability: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/hacking-dc-internet-voting-pilot http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/hacking-dc-in...