Anonymous ID: f1792b Aug. 23, 2018, 3:12 p.m. No.2715970   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5996 >>6375

I Just Hacked a State Election. I’m 17. And I’m Not Even a Very Good Hacker.

 

t took me around 10 minutes to crash the upcoming midterm elections. Once I accessed the shockingly simple and vulnerable set of tables that make up the state election board’s database, I was able to shut down the website that would tally the votes, bringing the election to a screeching halt. The data were lost completely. And just like that, tens of thousands of votes vanished into thin air, throwing an entire election, and potentially control of the House or Senate—not to mention our already shaky confidence in the democratic process itself—into even more confusion, doubt, and finger-pointing.

 

I’m 17. And I’m not even a very good hacker.

 

I’ve attended the hacking convention DEF CON in Las Vegas for over five years now, since I was 11 years old. While I have a good conceptual understanding of how cyberspace and the internet work, I’ve taken only a single Python programming class in middle school. When I found out that the Democratic National Committee was co-sponsoring a security competition for kids and teens, however, my interest in politics fed into curiosity about how easy it might be to mess with a U.S. election. Despite that limited experience, I understood immediately when I got to Las Vegas this year why the professionals tend to refer to state election security as “child’s play.”

 

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/21/i-just-hacked-a-state-election-17-not-a-good-hacker-219374

Anonymous ID: f1792b Aug. 23, 2018, 3:15 p.m. No.2715996   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>2715970

What if this is what the DNC reported as a HACK?

August 21, 2018

 

First, I wrote down the IP address of the server hosting the competition, no different than the first step a foreign agent would take. Then, I accessed the DEF CON-hosted website from a secure Wi-Fi spot and Googled a list of common MySQL commands. The whole thing, from search to shutdown, took me less than five minutes.

Anonymous ID: f1792b Aug. 23, 2018, 3:33 p.m. No.2716173   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6185 >>6195 >>6201 >>6215 >>6464 >>6526 >>6607

>>2716165

Check his retweet confirming Twitter too

 

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