Rigging an election - Part 2

In a website published before r00tz Asylum, the youth section of Def Con, organizers indicated that students would attempt to hack exact duplicates of state election websites, referring to them as “replicas” or “exact clones.” (The language was scaled back after the conference to simply say “clones.”)

Instead, students were working with look-alikes created for the event that had vulnerabilities they were coached to find. Organizers provided them with cheat sheets, and adults walked the students through the challenges they would encounter.

  ProPublica

I hate it when people do this kind of shit. We really do have serious problems with our election systems, including the machines. Don't give people a way to dismiss that by phonying up something. Assholes.

I posted about this story from DefCon earlier, and I've updated it to include this correction.  The rest of that post about machine vulnerabilities to rigging still stands.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.