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The ABCs of Hacking a Voting Machine
https://www.darkreading.com/iot/the-abcs-of-hacking-a-voting-machine/d/d-id/1332386

A hacker who successfully infiltrated a voting machine at last year's
DEF CON will demonstrate at Black Hat USA how he did it, as well as what
he later found stored on other decommissioned WinVote machines.

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The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-hacker-proof-voting-machine.html

Remote-access software is a type of program that system administrators
use to access and control computers remotely over the internet or over
an organization's internal network. Election systems are supposed to be
air-gapped -- disconnected from the internet and from other machines
that might be connected to the internet. The presence of the software
suggested this wasn't the case with the Venango machine, which made the
system vulnerable to hackers. Anyone who gained remote access to the
system could use the software to take control of the machine. Logs
showed the software was installed two years earlier and used multiple
times, most notably for 80 minutes on November 1, 2010, the night before
a federal election.

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Hackers break into voting machines within 2 hours at Defcon
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hackers-break-into-voting-machines-defcon-las-vegas/

"It's really just a matter of plugging your USB drive in for five
seconds and the thing's completely compromised at that point," Synack
co-founder Jay Kaplan told CNET. "To the point where you can get remote
access. It's very simple."

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2005, Hardware Hacking a Voting Machine in 4 Minutes
https://slashdot.org/story/06/09/05/160251/hardware-hacking-a-voting-machine-in-4-minutes

from 2006, Major Vulnerability Found in Diebold Election Machines
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/05/election_machin_1.html
Report Claims Very Serious Diebold Voting Machine Flaws
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2006/05/11/report-claims-very-serious-diebold-voting-machine-flaws/

common for companies to sue blocking hacking public
presentations/publication of their systems

Federal Judge in DefCon Case Equates Speech with Hacking
https://www.wired.com/2008/08/eff-to-appeal-r/

old posts mentioning denial-of-service, remote access dial-up HVAC
system vulnerability, one case took out datacenter that typically
originates 1/3rd NYSE transactions (aka turned of datacenter cooling)
... now lots of control system remote access have moved to intrenet
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#20 How about the old mainframe error messages that actually give you a clue about what's broken
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015e.html#50 old amiga HVAC
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#88 Why the cloud is bad news for Cisco, Dell, and HP
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#15 The Pentagon still uses computer software from 1958 to manage its contracts

war dialing, finding systems with modems to attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_dialing

other old posts mentioning war dialing
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#38 "war-dialing" etymology?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002b.html#41 "war-dialing" etymology?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#48 [Lit.] Buffer overruns
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008m.html#73 Blinkylights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010n.html#76 Mainframe hacking?
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#50 Cartons of Punch Cards
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#52 Wardialing statistics( was: "Cartons of Punch Cards" )
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012g.html#62 Caches, was Wardialing statistics(
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015c.html#100 On a lighter note, even the Holograms are demonstrating
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#88 Why the cloud is bad news for Cisco, Dell, and HP

current varient: Wardriving
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving

other refs:

Phone hacking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_hacking
Remote access tool
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_access_tool
Cracking of wireless networks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_of_wireless_networks

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