Voting is great and everything , but would n’t it be awesome if you could make your vote matter more than once ? Or , even better , change other people ’s votes to be for your candidate of pick ? Well , good news show , America ! Now that we ’re using poorly - design and insecure electronic vote machines , you’re able to do just that with some simple hacking ! And thanks to some researchers at Princeton , anyone can be a vote automobile hack . Here , we ’ll show you how ! The Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy has gone andpublished a reportdetailing the security measures vulnerabilities of the Sequoia e - voting machine and exactly how they hacked them . It turn out you just need to replace a single ROM chip , a summons that takes about 7 minutes . Just tell the poll workers that you ’re on the fence and need to really believe about it in the booth . Even better ? Once you install fraudulent microcode on one car , it can virally spread itself to other machines , mean you could commit widespread elector fraud across your entire state by just messing with one single machine . Is n’t that awesome ! And it ’ll keep circulate itself , effect the next election as well , and the election after that . Oh , and that fraudulent microcode ? It ’s a simple 122 lines of codification and took them 2 days to compose . They say that anyone with a calculator science backdrop could manipulate it up pretty easily . America ! Wooooooo hoo ! [ Ars Technica ]
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