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No mention of how he did it. Is the kid some child genius, was the security non existent, did he memorize a dozen lines of SQL, was the access control so broken
by Rotdhizon 8y ago
No mention of how he did it. Is the kid some child genius, was the security non existent, did he memorize a dozen lines of SQL, was the access control so broken that he clicked his way into this position?
Also, why are they having kids try to hack a voting site? Granted it's probably a very cheap mockup, but this doesn't seem like the area for kids to be playing in.
- athenot 8y agoWhy would reverse-engineering not be "the area for kids to be playing in"? That's a great way to learn. And doing it on a real-world system is even better than some mockup. As for the intent of the conference, it appears it's to shed light on how poorly designed these voting machines are. They are mostly "happy path programming" and previous attempts at clarifying the edge cases & vulnerabilities have been met with hand-waving and dismissal from both the vendor and the officials who purchases them.