Germany’s voting system is frighteningly easy to hack, warns CCC
Sep07
Das ist überhaupt nicht gut. Weeks before the federal election in Germany, cybersecurity collective Chaos Computer Club (CCC) warns that the designated software for registering votes is plagued with critical vulnerabilities. The organization, which has previously unearthed flaws in Samsung S8’s hardware, conducted a thorough analysis of the tabulating system for the upcoming election and discovered severe flaws that could be exploited to tamper with the vote count. The news comes in midst of reports suspecting Russian intervention in last year’s US election. “Some of these scenarios allow for the changing of vote totals across electoral district and state boundaries,” the…
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