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Guests: Filmmakers Simon Ardizonne and Russell Michaels... Today, we devote the bulk of The BradCast to HBO's new documentary film, released just last week and considered important enough that the premium cable channel is now making it available, for...
by TheBradBlog
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on Fri Apr 03, 2020 at 07:08 PM PDT
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NC Elections Board Ignores Voters, Approves Unverifiable Barcode Ballot System: 'BradCast' 8/23/2019 Guest: SMART Elections Co-Founder, documentarian Lulu Friesdat: Also: RGB treated for pancreatic cancer; David Koch dies; Trump blows up markets, trade war with China; Amazon burning... Just before airtime for today's BradCast, everything seemed to...
by TheBradBlog
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on Fri Aug 23, 2019 at 06:56 PM PDT
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The latest disruptive trends in data and digital technology underscore how vulnerable current voting systems are. By Steven Rosenfeld This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. The Las Vegas strip may be...
by Independent Media Institute
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on Mon Aug 19, 2019 at 08:22 AM PDT
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This article in WaPo is both inspiring and downright frightening. These folks are expert and the Voting Village part of the convention is only 3 years old. And this year is being attended by lawmakers as well as the expert hackers. 'Please break...
by momomia
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on Mon Aug 12, 2019 at 03:21 PM PDT
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Two weeks ago the DEF CON 26 Voting Village workshop demonstrated several ways for non-experts to hack into voting machines and related computer systems. You may recall, for example, that an 11-year-...
by Lincoln green
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on Wed Aug 29, 2018 at 06:17 AM PDT
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I wrote about voting machine and election website vulnerabilities about two and a half weeks ago, and that diary generated a tremendous amount of feedback.
Some of the commenters thought I was onto something, while others thought I was on something....
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sun Aug 12, 2018 at 06:59 PM PDT
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The first machine was hacked in just 2 minutes!
When attendees at the Def Con computer security conference—perhaps the biggest gathering of computer hackers in the world—were challenged to hack into 30 voting machines, they went to work. They...
by LamontCranston
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on Tue Jul 31, 2018 at 06:45 AM PDT
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If our “Election Systems” were declared to be “critical infrastructure” by the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) — you’d think they’d go to great lengths to protect it.
You’d think that, but given the following critiques from a Federal-Tech trade...
by jamess
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on Mon Jul 31, 2017 at 07:34 PM PDT
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Guest: Dr. David Jefferson of Livermore National Laboratory and Verified Voting | Also: 'The Mooch' is fired, and the health care wars continue...
On today's BradCast: How hackers in Las Vegas over the weekend confirmed what we've been yelling and...
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Jul 31, 2017 at 06:24 PM PDT
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From The Hill comes one of those “we were always afraid it could be this bad” kind of stories …
Hackers at at a competition in Las Vegas were able to successfully breach the software of U.S. voting machines in just 90 minutes on Friday,...
by Keith Pickering
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on Sat Jul 29, 2017 at 08:35 PM PDT
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DEFCON, the biggest hacker conference, will host workshops on election systems hacking. some of the 25,000 hackers in attendance will be invited to experiment with:
Remote network software security
Election machinery
Altering vote counts...
by Colonel Rainsborough
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on Thu Jun 15, 2017 at 05:28 PM PDT
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Just in on Yahoo News (citing Reuters) is the report that the Hackers Def Con Convention founder Jeff Moss has told the Feds that Hackers and Big Gov should take a "time-out" from one another. ...
by laserhaas
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on Thu Jul 11, 2013 at 05:54 PM PDT
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FEDS, WE NEED SOME TIME APART.
Front Paged by The Dark Tangent @ DEF CON 07.10.13 (repost archive)
For over two decades DEF CON has been an open nexus of hacker culture, a place where seasoned pros,
by koNko
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on Thu Jul 11, 2013 at 07:40 AM PDT
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Well yesterday was none too happy around here with the results of the FISA ammendment vote and other irritants.
Nightprowlkitty shared ...
by Jake Williams
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on Sun Aug 05, 2007 at 06:12 AM PDT
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DefCon's campaign against the Creation Museum -- a $27 million institution dedicated ...
by DefCon Clark
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on Thu May 24, 2007 at 06:46 AM PDT
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On Monday, May 28th the religious right's new "Creation Museum" in Petersburg, Kentucky will open its doors. For those unaware, the Creation Museum is a $27 million structure, built to promote the ...
by DefCon Clark
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on Thu May 17, 2007 at 08:35 AM PDT
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This past week, the controversy over Left Behind: Eternal Forces , a video game based on the Left Behind series of novels, has been propelled into the national, and international ...
by Frederick Clarkson
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on Sat Dec 16, 2006 at 09:27 PM PST
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Public concern about the video game based on Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series of novels is growing. It is the only video game that indoctrinates children in an ideology of religious warfare. ...
by Frederick Clarkson
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on Wed Dec 06, 2006 at 04:41 PM PST
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by DefCon Clark
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on Fri Nov 03, 2006 at 07:31 AM PST
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by DefCon Clark
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on Thu Nov 02, 2006 at 07:36 AM PST
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