[ale] hack challenge for electronic XbotingX voting system

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Sat Aug 23 07:57:34 EDT 2003


Duhh...kant spel gud tooday.

Jim Philips wrote:
> The state of Georgia has decided to allow a Cumming programmer, Roxanne 
> Jekot, and her team a chance to hack into the state's 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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