Voting machine password hacks as easy as 'abcde', details Virginia state report

[peoli]

Source: Guardian UK

Touchscreen voting machines used in numerous elections between 2002 and 2014 used “abcde” and “admin” as passwords and could easily have been hacked from the parking lot outside the polling place, according to a state report.

The AVS WinVote machines, used in three presidential elections in Virginia, “would get an F-minus” in security, according to a computer scientist at tech research group SRI International who had pushed for a formal inquiry by the state of Virginia for close to a decade.

In a damning study published Tuesday, the Virginia Information Technology Agency and outside contractor Pro V&V found numerous flaws in the system, which had also been used in Mississippi and Pennsylvania.

Jeremy Epstein, of the Menlo Park, California, nonprofit SRI International, served on a Virginia state legislative commission investigating the voting machines in 2008. He has been trying to get them decertified ever since.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/virginia-hacking-voting-machines-security

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Hack the vote.

[iandhr]

2. Makes me think of this from Spaceballs.

[davidpdx]

3. Republicans plan for winning Virginia?

[Judi Lynn]

4. Thanks for posting this info, Peoli. It's no shock to us, sadly, but we really need to know.

When will these dirtbags EVER have to answer for their crimes against their country?

[peacebird]

5. We need electronic machines to print a voter certifiable ticket that the voter places back in box

Before leaving the booth.
We have known these machines were crap and easily hacked for over a decade. There were tests of the security by ivy league schools that proved what a joke they were then.