{"id":43251,"date":"2009-11-17T04:09:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T09:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091115\/1835116945.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-17T04:09:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T09:09:17","slug":"brazilian-hacking-attempts-fail-to-break-brazilian-e-voting-but-do-improve-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/43251","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Hacking Attempts Fail To Break Brazilian E-Voting, But Do Improve The Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We pointed out recently that Brazil was allowing groups of hackers and security experts to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091102\/0330066758.shtml\">hack their e-voting machines<\/a>, something that the e-voting industry has always resisted angrily.  The e-voting companies have never been able to adequately explain why experts shouldn&#8217;t be able to try to hack the machines, and all it did was lead to more distrust over the machines.  However, the Brazil test has been concluded, and there&#8217;s some good news: <a href=http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091115\/%22\nhttp:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/11\/14\/1936200\/Hackers-Fail-To-Crack-Brazilian-Voting-Machines?from=rss&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+(Slashdot)\" >no one was able to crack the machines<\/a>.  However, with all the hack attacks, officials did learn a few things that are helping them to improve the overall process with the machines.  It&#8217;s really amazing that we still don&#8217;t have something similar happening in the US.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091115\/1835116945.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091115\/1835116945.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091115\/1835116945&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=95587edec7845fff3117e69a2981b638&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=95587edec7845fff3117e69a2981b638&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=6tdr-iAFJaQ:kE6EPfYX42M:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=6tdr-iAFJaQ:kE6EPfYX42M:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=6tdr-iAFJaQ:kE6EPfYX42M:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/6tdr-iAFJaQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We pointed out recently that Brazil was allowing groups of hackers and security experts to hack their e-voting machines, something that the e-voting industry has always resisted angrily. The e-voting companies have never been able to adequately explain why experts shouldn&#8217;t be able to try to hack the machines, and all it did was lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}