Zetter was the first to report that voting machines made by ES&S, a major vendor, were linked to the internet, which means that they can be accessed remotely. Wired and Motherboard reporter Kim Zetter talked about how voting machine manufacturers have lied in the past about the security of their machines. But DARPA promised to bring it back for next year.ĭEFCON speakers noted that there’s still a lot of work left to do in order to secure U.S. Because of a glitch, the white hat hackers at DEFCON couldn’t tinker with the DARPA machinefor two days. If implemented well, it could lead to more manufacturers working to make the next generation of improved voting machines. DARPA’s secure ballot box, which was made with open source code, is just one example of how better designed hardware could make voting more secure, especially by guarding against remote access. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Defense agency responsible for developing emerging technologies. This year’s conference included a demonstration of a secure ballot box by the U.S. The attack the children were trained to use on the sites (SQL injection) is the same attack the Senate Intelligence Committee warned was used in a majority of Russian cyber attacks on election websites in 2016.”ĭEFCON’s organizers plan to release a white paper to summarize this year’s convention findings as well. In less than 10 minutes, an 11-year old in the competition hacked into a mockup of Florida’s election results website, changing its reported vote totals. The DEFCON 26 report described how young attendees were able to successfully hack a mock election website: “Young DEFCON attendees were given the opportunity to hack mockups of secretary of state election results websites for the thirteen Presidential Battleground States. The DEFCON 25 report, for example, warned, “If Russia can attack our election, so can others: Iran, North Korea, ISIS, or even criminal or extremist groups.” Each year, they have published conference findings that serve as grave warnings to Congress and to states and local jurisdictions that buy voting machines for elections. Like other speakers in the Voting Village, they urged states to use hand-marked paper ballots and to adopt risk-limiting audits.ĭEFCON’s organizers have put the three-year window for hacking voting machines to good use. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, and Verified Voting President Marian Schneider. Other speakers I got to hear included Sen. My Brennan Center colleague and former Virginia election official Liz Howard spoke about how Virginia switched to paper ballots just in time for the 2017 election. The DEFCON Voting Village also included an impressive roster of speakers. I was only interested in the DEFCON Voting Village, which included a large assortment of voting equipment for participants to test, hack, and break. Barring an extension by the Library of Congress, 2019 is the third and last year these hacks are legal.ĭEFCON is a huge event, and I saw fellow conference-goers all over Las Vegas with their distinctive glowing badges. But the Library of Congress, which has certain authorities under the law, set a three-year window to allow third parties access to voting machines to test their security. Voting machines are protected from reverse engineering under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. But what can computer hackers teach us about it? To find out, I went to Las Vegas earlier this month to attend DEFCON 27, the largest annual hacking conference in the United States, knowing this was probably my last chance to see a legal election hacking. Given the extent of foreign interference in the 2016 election, every American should be concerned about election security in 2020. Attend the Brennan Legacy Awards Dinner.Advance Constitutional Change Show / hide.National Task Force on Democracy Reform & the Rule of Law.Government Targeting of Minority Communities Show / hide.Campaign Finance in the Courts Show / hide.Gerrymandering & Fair Representation Show / hide.Ensure Every American Can Vote Show / hide.
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