An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes | PBS NewsHour Weekend

An 11-year-old changed election results on a replica Florida state website in under 10 minutes | PBS NewsHour Weekend

"An 11-year-old boy on Friday was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes during the world’s largest yearly hacking convention, DEFCON 26, organizers of the event said.
The boy, who was identified by DEFCON officials as Emmett Brewer, accessed a replica of the Florida secretary of state’s website.
He was one of about 50 children between the ages of 8 and 16 who were taking part in the so-called “DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village,” a portion of which allowed kids the chance to manipulate party names, candidate names and vote count totals.
“These are very accurate replicas of all of the sites,” Sell told the PBS NewsHour on Sunday.
“These things should not be easy enough for an 8-year-old kid to hack within 30 minutes, it’s negligent for us as a society.”...
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