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lute says,mbassador this is absolutely a national security problem. that is the biggest thing that has changed from when i started working in this field till today. we started in 2007 thinking, it is possible people might temper with a few localized election systems but state-level attacks, nation-state attackers changing a result that sounds like science fiction. it does not sound like science fiction anymore. the voting system as we have seen in many, many different studies over the past 10 years that have come out of different academic groups is vulnerable throughout the technical infrastructure. the infrastructure is a decade or decades out of date and there are all kinds of ways that attackers might be able to compromise voting equipment. but the def con results do in my mind more than anything else and this is an amazing confirmation and extension of all of the different works that has shown machines to be vulnerable and now, even in machines like the dex that harri and others like us have studied in the past, there are more vulnerabilities bein

is the calling about gentleman you had earlier, the mbassador, i guess is what he was. host: yes. aller: one of the things is the he's talking about how voting are hacking machines. host: involve frment last year's and voting machine security overall. caller: yes. i look at is the way it. geez, working in it for 20 years. is he was mentioning to it took them 90 minutes hack the voting machine. whole thing is lthough voting machines are basically closed, you know, they internet to the until -- excuse me, until they and they send their data out to the trunk, which the trunk is where everybody gets their data from. he's really did is in he pinion, is that misinformed everyone that they session with professional programmers or whatever coming that you want to use and they sat there and they knew the code, so they were able to go in there ith their knowledge and find the problems or, you know, the backdoors. well, the whole thing is that on these e vote electronic machines, is that it a server and from that erver, after the data is accumulated, it goes into the trunk and from the trunk