[ale] hack challenge for electronic boting system

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Sat Aug 23 07:35:51 EDT 2003


The state of Georgia has decided to allow a Cumming programmer, Roxanne 
Jekot, and her team a chance to hack into the states touch screen 
electronic voting system. They took up the challenge after she 
complained of the system's vulnerability in a forum. One of the system's 
designers says he puts their chances of hacking undetected at "1 billion 
to one". I was wondering why he hedged it with "undetected". Bob Toxen: 
You betting on this one?

The story is here:

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0803/23voting.html

I submitted it to Slashdot too. Don't know if they'll post it.

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