[ExI] how hard was it to see this coming?

[Adrian Tymes]

This is barely even news now.  We've known about this for years.

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 9:16 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/12/voting-machines-can-be-hacked-without-evidence-com/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_campaign=pushnotify&utm_medium=push
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> Stunning testimony: Voting machines can be hacked without a trace of
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> By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, September 12, 2017
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> The country’s voting machines are susceptible to hacking, which could be
> done in a way so that it leaves no fingerprints, making it impossible to
> know whether the outcome was changed, computer experts told President
> Trump’s voter integrity commission Tuesday.
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> The testimony marked a departure for the commission, which was formed to
> look into fraud and barriers to voting, but which heard that a potentially
> greater threat to confidence in American elections is the chance for enemy
> actors to meddle.
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> “There’s no perfect security; there’s only degrees of insecurity,” said
> Ronald Rivest, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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> He said hackers have myriad ways of attacking voting machines. “You don’t
> want to rest the election of the president on, ‘Maybe the Wi-Fi was turned
> on when it shouldn’t have been.’”
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> He and two other computer security experts said bar codes on ballots and
> smartphones in voting locations could give hackers a chance to rewrite
> results in ways that couldn’t be traceable, short of sampling of ballots or
> hand recounts — and those work only in cases where there’s a paper trail.
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> Andrew Appel, a professor at Princeton University, said it would be easy to
> write a program that cheats on election results and deletes evidence of the
> hack as soon as the results are reported.
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> The analysts didn’t point to any specific election that they knew had been
> compromised, but they said hackers likely would leave fingerprints only if
> they wanted to be spotted and hurt confidence in the U.S. electoral system.
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> “To ignore the fact that the computers are completely hackable and to try to
> run elections, as some states do, where they entirely rely on the word of a
> computer program on who won is entirely irresponsible,” Mr. Appel said.
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> The revelations stunned members of the Presidential Advisory Commission on
> Election Integrity, which was in New Hampshire on Tuesday for its second
> meeting.
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> “I’m sufficiently shaken,” said Ken Blackwell, a commissioner and former
> secretary of state in Ohio…
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