Proprietary Software Used In German Elections Trivial To Hack, Say CCC Researchers

[Lucian Armasu]

Security researchers from the Chaos Computer Club identified multiple vulnerabilities in PC-Wahl, the proprietary software used to capture, aggregate, and tabulate votes in multiple German elections, including the upcoming parliamentary election.

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[bananaforscale]

How very surprising. /s

 

[gggplaya]

These voting machines shouldn't be online... period. It's nice to have real time analytics, but not at the expense of security. They should simply tabulate all the results locally on a closed network inside the polling building. Once all the totals are calculated for the night, they phone into the central office to give their totals. They same way that normal paper polling places have done for over a century.

 

[TripleHeinz]

Well, this explains a lot for the past 12 years in Germany.