Researchers Demo Hardware Attacks Against India's E-Voting Machines 179
An anonymous reader writes "India, the world's largest democracy, votes entirely on government-made electronic voting machines that authorities claim are 'tamperproof,' 'infallible,' and 'perfect,' but last week security researchers proved that they can be manipulated to steal elections. A team led by Hari Prasad, Professor J. Alex Halderman, and Rop Gonggrijp released an awesome video that shows off hardware hacks they built. These machines are much simpler than e-voting designs used in the US, but as the research paper explains, this makes attacking the hardware even easier. Halderman's students at the University of Michigan took only about a week to build a replacement display board that lies about the vote totals, and the team also built a pocket-sized device that clips onto the memory chips, with the machine powered on, and rewrites the votes. Clippy says, 'It looks like you're trying to rig an election ...'"
A real hacker... (Score:5, Funny)
...would register a one-issue party against the use of insecure voting machines. Then win the election. Then fix the problem.
Poll rigging this way is unnecessary in India. (Score:4, Funny)
Perfectly illustrated in http://xkcd.com/538/ [xkcd.com]