Man who uncovered Georgia's voter data speaks out

[L. Coyote]

http://www.cbs46.com/story/36192656/man-who-uncovered-georgias-voter-data-speaks-out

..... I ... wrote a little bit of code to just download the website."

When he returned from lunch, he says, "I was shocked to find that I had about 15 gigabytes of data...voter registration information. I had full names, dates of birth, addresses, last four digits of social security numbers, driver's license numbers. There were databases that are used on election day for actually accumulating the vote."

He believes the website was also vulnerable to a well-known hack and the server was not secure.

"If that server was, in fact, being used to share files at the county level, and those files were being placed on election equipment, then a bad guy could've conceivably modified files that eventually ended up on voting systems," says Lamb.

When asked what that would do, Lamb said it "could possibly change the outcome of the election." ...............

[dalton99a]

1. Kick.

[KewlKat]

2. First I heard of this.

[Angry Dragon]

3. me too

[onit2day]

8. voting should be mandatory and accountable

[Wounded Bear]

4. K & R ......for visibility..nt

[Ford_Prefect]

5. Oh My! (said George)

Just imagine what a 6 year old with attitude might do to it, eh?

[klook]

11. Or a 400-lb. Russian guy on a bed (nt)

[jpak]

6. Kick

yup

[Dustlawyer]

7. This is no accident that it is so open to tampering.

[brush]

9. Bet it's no surprise to repug hackers.

[L. Coyote]

12. Purposeful was certainly my first suspicion. Deniability after fixed elections discovered.

[klook]

10. The Kennesaw State U. contract is still in force through June 2018.

Georgia to shift elections work in-house, away from Kennesaw State - AJC, 7/14/2017

[Lonestarblue]

13. We need a new system.

I wish all those tech geniuses around the country would get together and create an election system that cannot be hacked, either by foreign hackers or by partisan state officials. We desperately need a system we can believe in, and we all know that the 2018 elections will be hacked by Russia and/or Republicans.

[Amaryllis]

14. How many times have we heard "But it didn't change the outcome of the election." GLad to hear him

say it could have. Computer scientists and white hat hackers have been saying that for years. I never believed it when they said it about the Russian hacks either. They weren't just doing it to prove they could. Duh.

[L. Coyote]

15. Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.

Absence is evidence or knowledge is never proof of anything except ignorance.