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Electronic Voting site HACKED!
Xeen:
VoteHere, Inc. has admitted that their web site, www.votehere.net was recently hacked.
quote:A company developing security technology for electronic voting suffered an embarrassing hacker break-in that executives think was tied to the rancorous debate over the safety of casting ballots online.
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The hacker was able to access internal corporate documents and may have stolen secret source code.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=1&u=/ap/20031229/ap_on_hi_te/internet_voting&sid=95573501
A simple Netcraft search for that site reveals the simple reason for why this happened:
quote:www.votehere.net OS: NT4/WINDOWS 98 Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
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[ December 29, 2003: Message edited by: xeen ]
Laukev7:
Wow. Makes me feel very comfortable to know that democracy is kept in such good hands.
Kintaro:
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Anyone with IIS 4 on NT 4.0 Deserves to be hacked.
HHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Suckers.
Kintaro:
quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
Wow. Makes me feel very comfortable to know that democracy is kept in such good hands.
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George Bush won the election, yet this worrys you?
Laukev7:
quote:Originally posted by X11: Troll Erudition:
George Bush won the election, yet this worrys you?
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No, what worries me is that he might get reelected.
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