{"id":328,"date":"2005-11-27T08:31:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-11-27T08:31:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T01:31:11","slug":"hacker-hired-to-test-electronic-voting-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/hacker-hired-to-test-electronic-voting-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker Hired To Test Electronic Voting Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A computer hacker from Finland has been asked to break into one of California&#8217;s electronic voting machines as part of a security test initiated by the state.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Bruce McPherson asked Harri Hursti to attempt to infiltrate one of the voting machines made by Diebold Election Systems.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The company is one of the nation&#8217;s largest manufacturers of electronic voting systems and is trying to get its new system approved for use in California.<\/p>\n<p>The tests will use a randomly selected voting machine from one of the 17 counties that currently use a Diebold system.<\/p>\n<p>Hursti was asked to try to demonstrate that machines made by Diebold are vulnerable to hacker attacks and can be used to manipulate the results of an election.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s machines were blamed for disruptions in the March 2004 primary election in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacker Hired To Test Electronic Voting Machines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBYZ-5i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}