Stemcomputers Duitse verkiezingen onveilig
NIEUWS - De Chaos Computer Club heeft in Duitsland de software van de stemcomputers die in veel van de deelstaten wordt gebruikt bij de aanstaande verkiezingen tegen het licht gehouden. Het result is vrij onthutsend; de stemsoftware is zo lek als een mandje:
“Elementary principles of IT-security were not heeded to. The amount of vulnerabilities and their severity exceeded our worst expectations”, says Linus Neumann, a speaker for the CCC that was involved in the study.
A depressing finding of the study is that a state-funded team of hackers is not even necessary to control the tabulation of the votes. The broken software update mechanism of “PC-Wahl” allows for one-click compromise. Together with the lacking security of the update server, this makes complete takeover quite feasible. Given the trivial nature of the attacks, it would be prudent to assume that not only the CCC is aware of these vulnerabilities.