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  • Defcon 25 appears to be the first year of the voting village.

    That said the late 2000s were full of discussion on voting machine security prior to the addition of the voting village. This was all old news by the time voting village was added.

    This documentary explains where security was in 2006

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808532/

    I haven’t watched this in a very long time but the hackers managed to procure source code from a public sever run by the company making the machines (Diebold I think) and faced some legal issues as a result.

    They also illustrated a proof of concept attack where a counting machine was made to miscount votes to favor one person over another.

    For people not in the know its very important to know that it is ILLEGAL for an independent 3rd party to perform penetration tests on voting machines without the manufacturer’s consent and the code that runs these machines is not public in any way that would allow for a proper audit of the systems to ensure that even the manufacturer has not tampered with the machine.


















  • The top three are used in California.

    I mainly stick with Dude and Buddy (Buddy being my go to for strangers “Thanks Buddy”)

    In my office a few years back I started ironically calling people “Homie” and that overtime morphed into a gender neutral term of endearment we all used for each other.

    I really wonder where “Homie” fits into this