Grain to grind for African opponents often skeptical about the reliability of the electronic voting system. An 11-year-old has managed to hack a replica of the US e-voting system. It was early August, during the Defcon, the largest hacking conference in the world.
The hackers focused on official websites to announce the results. In ten minutes, the young Audrey Jones, 11, hacked the site and “Bob da Builder” (Bob the builder), famous cartoon character, was elected by universal suffrage.
The ease with which gifted children have been able to thwart safety devices is sobering. For example, of the 39 children aged 8 to 16 participating in the Defcon Voting Village experiment, 35 managed to hack into the site in less than half an hour. The gifted were able to inflate the voices and change the names of the candidates.
A flat, however. The National Association of Secretaries of State has, in a statement, questioned the experience, saying that the replies used have nothing to do with reality. What the organizers admit, conceding that it would have been very complex to recreate identically the websites that actually use the US states.
In the meantime the debate is launched. Should we adopt electronic voting or not? A short distance from the mid-term elections and as the Russian infiltration during the election of Donald Trump resurfaced, the question is worth its weight in gold.
