Kids to try hacking US election systems in new DNC contest

[turbinetree]

BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 08/04/18 05:06 PM EDT

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is hosting a competition next week to see if children and teenagers can defend U.S. election systems.

The DNC is partnering with Def Con, a hacking conference in Las Vegas, to host a contest for kids, ages 8 to 16, to see if they can penetrate replicas of the websites used by secretaries of states of publish election results, Wired reported this week.

Cybersecurity expert Brian Markus will design fake websites for 13 different states that are often battleground states during presidential elections.

The young hackers could win $2,500 — $500 from the DNC — if they come up with the best defensive strategy to share with the secretaries of states ahead of November’s midterm elections.

DNC chief technology officer, Raffi Krikorian, told the outlet that he was inspired to come up with the youth initiative after adults were able to hack into flawed voting machines last year.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/400406-8-year-olds-to-try-hacking-us-election-systems-in-dnc-contest

Maybe after this event...........................we (citizens) should be demanding PAPER BALLOTS and human counting the aformentioned PAPER BALLOTS.......................these "kids" will be able to hack the dummy systems of the so called thirteen sites..................and to the state election official(s) in the Hogan administration in Maryland using a Russian oligarchy backed election machines, what is your recousre to and response.............the machines are safe.............and the paper ballot we have our elections scanned are safe............... .................. what the fuck.................

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/surprise-maryland--your-election-contractor-has-ties-to-russia/2018/07/22/fbe57058-8c4d-11e8-85ae-511bc1146b0b_story.html?utm_term=.0b9abb2bd951

[BigmanPigman]

1. Bill Maher was talking to Malcolm Nance and

said that a teenager was able to go into a voting booth and somehow hack into it to and make it play music like a juke box. They even had a hacking convention in Vegas. We must have paper ballots!

[ProudLib72]

2. This is perhaps the single best idea I've heard since 2016

Teach the kids about taking responsibility for their government. Get them excited to participate. They learn and/or demonstrate computer skills. It's a win, win, win situation.