{"id":516,"date":"2016-08-07T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2016\/08\/07\/hacking-voting-machines-4-key-pieces-of-informed-intel\/"},"modified":"2016-08-07T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T23:28:00","slug":"hacking-voting-machines-4-key-pieces-of-informed-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/hacking-voting-machines-4-key-pieces-of-informed-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Voting Machines. 4 key Pieces of Informed Intel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why are voting machines an easy target for hackers?<\/strong>\u00a0Most voting machines operate on Windows XP, which has not had a security patch from Microsoft since 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>A hack isn&#8217;t the only way to cause voting chaos?<\/strong>\u00a0Slowing the machines down can be enough to turn people away from the polls<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this a real, existing problem? Yes, it is.<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Virginia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/08\/virginia-finally-drops-americas-worst-voting-machines\/\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 3px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(180,231,248);font-family:'Exchange SSm 4r', 'ExchangeWeb-Roman', Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decertified thousands<\/a>\u00a0of insecure WinVote machines&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best way to control for electronic voting machine intereference?<\/strong>\u00a0Auditing the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/08\/americas-voting-machines-arent-ready-election\/?mc_cid=116bcdb4da&amp;mc_eid=45089445a0\">Wired |\u00a0America\u2019s Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why are voting machines an easy target for hackers?<\/strong>\u00a0Most voting machines operate on Windows XP, which has not had a security patch from Microsoft since 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>A hack isn&#8217;t the only way to cause voting chaos?<\/strong>\u00a0Slowing the machines down can be enough to turn people away from the polls<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this a real, existing problem? Yes, it is.<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Virginia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/08\/virginia-finally-drops-americas-worst-voting-machines\/\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 3px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(180,231,248);font-family:'Exchange SSm 4r', 'ExchangeWeb-Roman', Georgia, serif;font-size:18px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decertified thousands<\/a>\u00a0of insecure WinVote machines&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best way to control for electronic voting machine intereference?<\/strong>\u00a0Auditing the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/08\/americas-voting-machines-arent-ready-election\/?mc_cid=116bcdb4da&amp;mc_eid=45089445a0\">Wired&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-trend","category-government-data-breach","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}