Ars Technica recently ran an interesting story on how to hack into election machines and steal elections. I'll admit I didn't quite make it through the whole, rather extensive piece, but seeing the video they linked to in which Princeton computer scientists show off a hacked voting machine was plenty spooky enough; Benedict Arnold ends up beating George Washington! Let it be said that these Princeton good-guy hackers would probably get Americans' blood boiling if the video had a bit more special effects, dramatic music, human faces, etc.
How To Steal an Election
Learn how Princeton computer scientists demonstrate ways to hack into election machines and implications for stealing elections.
Written byAmos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor)
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