Voting machines and other election devices in place at #DEFCON in Caesar’s Palace in Vegas tonight, ready to be hacked tomorrow. First came the successful penetration of campaign emails, and then a coordinated information warfare campaign that involved the dissemination of the hacked materials through specially-built websites and social media accounts, including DCLeaks, and through other sites like WikiLeaks. Recent indictments of Russian nationals by special counsel Robert Mueller allege Russia’s targeting of the Democratic party and the Clinton campaign in 2016 was two-fold. What, some of them ask, if they fall victim to a coordinated information warfare campaign? While such hacks are a cause of concern for election officials, they are increasingly looking beyond the threats against traditional election infrastructure like voting machines and voting databases and more to the threat of disinformation. The event, now in its second year, is supposed to demonstrate vulnerabilities in America’s vast election infrastructure.Īfter a few hours on Friday, one hacker was essentially able to turn a voting machine into a jukebox, making it play music and display animations. Organizers of a “voting village” at the annual Def Con hacker convention have packed a conference room at Caesars Palace with voting machines and have asked civically-curious hackers to wreak havoc. As hackers sit down to break into dozens of voting machines here in Las Vegas this weekend, some state and local election officials that have flown in to witness the spectacle at one of the world’s largest hacking conventions are becoming increasingly concerned about another threat to November’s midterm elections: information warfare.
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