It’s no longer a question whether hackers will influence the 2016 elections in the United States — only how much they’ll be able to sway them. Leaked emails already have cost a Democratic Party chairperson her job, and the FBI last month issued a flash warning that foreign cyberadversaries had breached two state election databases. Those two states — most likely Arizona and Illinois — aren’t alone in having their voter information compromised. Voter registration databases from all 50 states are being hawked on Deep Web marketplaces.
I read just recently that the Pennsylvania election system still uses Windows XP for voting. It's no wonder the system can be hacked easily. If we are to embrace electronic voting, we need to specify better and more secure requirements. The same problems with hacking happens at government levels as it does anywhere else. Weak passwords, clueless users, and people like Hillary Clinton who insist on questionable means of communications because she can't understand or doesn't want to use more complex security. It's this obsession to make things easy that creates gaps in security. No doubt many users who get hacked are at the cause of being hacked because of their actions. If the NYT's can illegally get Donald Trump's tax records. What makes anyone think anything is not accessible for a price?
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Hacking Elections Is Easy, Study Finds
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. September 30, 2016 07:00 AMIt’s no longer a question whether hackers will influence the 2016 elections in the United States — only how much they’ll be able to sway them. Leaked emails already have cost a Democratic Party chairperson her job, and the FBI last month issued a flash warning that foreign cyberadversaries had breached two state election databases. Those two states — most likely Arizona and Illinois — aren’t alone in having their voter information compromised. Voter registration databases from all 50 states are being hawked on Deep Web marketplaces.