Brazilian Hacking Attempts Fail To Break Brazilian E-Voting, But...

Courtesy Techdirt  Tue, 11/17/2009 - 03:09

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'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's some good news: no one was able to...

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