Hacked Voting System Stored Accessible Password, Encryption Key
Internet • October 2010 • Views: 1,114
I love the internet, but an internet-based voting system an incredibly bad idea.
An internet-based voting system that was hacked last week by researchers at the University of Michigan stored its database username, password and encryption key on a server open to attack.
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The hack, unnoticed by election officials until researchers notified them, forced election officials to take the system offline and adopt a contingency plan for the November elections.
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