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Government

Sep. 7, 2018

Count on it: elections will be hacked in November

Technology is released, someone figures out how to hack it, tech is updated, someone figures out how to hack that, and so the cycle goes on.

Jason S. Leiderman

Law Offices of Jay Leiderman

Email: Jay@Criminal-Lawyer.me

"Jay" Leiderman is an attorney in Ventura who specializes in hacking and computer crime.

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HACKING THE LAW

There's an aphorism in the world of computer security: Any 12-year-old, given enough time, can hack any system. The statement is meant to be more cautionary and hyperbolic than realistic. Even so, at times it tends to be proverbial, as was the case a few weeks ago. At a hackathon in Las Vegas at the DEFCON computer conference, an 11-year-old hacked an imitation Florida voting machine in 10 minutes. He was not the only child to ...

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