This is important because voter information is stored as SQL databases and they've been hacked in Arizona. Arizona has closed primary. This year their choices are Democrat, Republican or Green. The database was hacked so affiliation was changed to Independent and there is no such on the ballot so those votes are rendered useless.
It's much worse than that in Arizona, the comments to this story quickly devolve to the other problem, the obvious and visual problem of long lines that shut out voters. Comments are loaded with people complaining they've been turned away. In one case, the line is too long, too far away from the voter place to be considered a line.
The hacking relies on a program called Havij, Troy pronounces as "cabbage." He asks his boy. "Would you like to hack a site?" The boy answers, "Noooo." They do anyway. He chooses a site and shows how the program hacks it for emails and passwords.
You see immediately how easily this can be applied to state voter information stored on SQL that is not protected. Troy goes on to explain what Havij program is doing and how data might be protected from it but seldom is.
And the damage done there in Arizona is irreparable. Trust in voter system is destroyed. The commenters if taken for typical generally assume Republican mischief. They want to leave the state and go someplace reliably liberal where things are run fairly. They're not considering any Republican voters shut out. That's not even a fraction of their grievance. It's all Republican malfeasance. Finally they see irrefutable actual voter fraud but by their lights it must be Republican. Why do they assume that? Because that's the way their minds work. It's only by raw hate that can force these pieces to fit, and to keep force fitting. No other perspective allowed. Dem on Dem hacking is not possible. All sensible people are Democrats and all wound up crackpots are Republicans. If perspective were altered even a little then the whole picture would change like a lenticular print, and that's where they live.
The hacking video is a link inside the story about Arizona SQL database being hacked, near the end almost as an aside. I found the hacking video presented above as interesting as the article itself, more interesting than all the pinched partisan perspectives and all the voter's stories of long lines and discouragement,
The report is about ballots being switched to Independent, how that could happen, who it affected, and what all that means.
4 comments:
That's a good daddy. Kid's unbearably cute.
It's not the db, it's the security software and hardware around it.
He's hacking Google documents. Left there unsecured.
However Arizona's voter information is handled, it's not secured. I like how this video shows it can be kids idly going through lists somewhere and snooping around.
This is the environment we give to our children. This is one way kids explore their environment. The commenters are concerned about liberals being shut out in a predominantly conservative state while conservatives complain about insufficient polling venues purposefully diminished greatly in Republican districts. Nobody can believe any of this isn't on purpose.
I can see grown kids idly goofing around in this way with information veritably handed them by not being protected. Government being that thing all we crackpots do together. Like a giant pot luck except a lot more vicious.
Ever talk to poll workers? "I been doing this thirty-five years, and I've not seen anything like this."
Thirty-five years you are activated to get off your ass and participate in something civic and meaningful and political and important and needed?
Thirty-five years? Your hadj is completed. Your duty satisfied. Your reward earned. You may retire. You freak.
What djew call me?
I said, euphoric.
Yeah, well, the Arizona bullshit is reaching peak breathless vapors right now, so...
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