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RE: 11-Year-Old Hacks A State Election Replica Website In Under 10 Minutes At DEFCON
still though, imagine if the wrong election results were picked up by a news agency and went viral, then the government had to come back around and say that the results were wrong..it would create a shitstorm, to say the least
Maybe. But it's not like similar things haven't happened before. Remember when the election was called for Al Gore...and then Bush...and then too close to call...and then Bush? And that was without any hacking... Officials would be aware of actual election results regardless of what was on an informational public web page so I don't think there is much risk in that regard.
Exactly, this is not about changing the 'votes' it is about being able to change and further undermine the public's degree of trust concerning both the Candidates and the News.
just imagine...
