Boy, 11, hacks into replica U.S. vote website in minutes at convention

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Reuters
Reuters Staff
Aug. 14, 2018

(Reuters) - An 11-year-old boy managed to hack into a replica of Florida’s election results website in 10 minutes and change names and tallies during a hackers convention, organizers said, stoking concerns about security ahead of nationwide votes.

The boy was the quickest of 35 children, ages 6 to 17, who all eventually hacked into copies of the websites of six swing states during the three-day Def Con security convention over the weekend, the event said on Twitter on Tuesday.

The event was meant to test the strength of U.S. election infrastructure and details of the vulnerabilities would be passed onto the states, it added.

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So in other words .... false strawman website gets hacked in a publicity stunt to weaken voter confidence ahead of midterm elections in order to facilitate actual election fraud.

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So in other words .... false strawman website gets hacked in a publicity stunt to weaken voter confidence ahead of midterm elections in order to facilitate actual election fraud.

Actual electronic voting systems were recently hacked at some techie convention.