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People are much more interested in hacking into voting machines than they are in hacking into public air planes. Planes and elevators are not connected to an i
by ZainRiz 8y ago
People are much more interested in hacking into voting machines than they are in hacking into public air planes.
Planes and elevators are not connected to an internet, unlike most voting machines, making them harder to hack into.
Also, when people hack into planes/elevators the hack will quickly get noticed and thus the exploit will get fixed pretty soon. With electronic voting machines the hack could remain undiscovered for years since there's no clear visible sign that the machine has been hacked.
- furgooswft13 8y agoElectronic voting machines themselves are not connected to the internet. I don't think software development in this field is that retarded. They can still be hacked of course, but the delivery mechanism would at least be some local network or more likely compromised firmware upload. Most likely some computer somewhere in the chain of voting machine counts -> official "verified" vote totals is connected, but you could say that of vote rolls coming from manual punch ballots as well. A lot of people suggest the solution is for electronic voting machines to produce at least an actual vote paper trail, but I don't see that helping as a hacked machine could spoof those just as well as bits.