Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

It's a unit system.

I know this.

It's all the files of the whole park.

It tells her everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus. Eagle One. The package is being delivered.

I'm Ben Maku, National Security Reporter with Vice, and this is Cyber, a podcast from Motherboard about hacking.

Their voting machines are vulnerable to hackers.

On Friday, hackers were able to penetrate a touchscreen voting machine in less than two hours.

The United States' e-voting system is so vulnerable that one or a few dedicated individuals could sway the entire presidential election.

You've heard it before.

Disinformation campaigns, covert plans

hatched deep inside the Kremlin by Darth Putin

to use his troll factories, Facebook ad buying sprees,

and ninja hackers to steal Hillary's emails

and embarrass the Democrats.

I mean, it kind of worked.

But when you say election hacking,

it means something more, something very specific.

Today, we want to talk about what real election hacking is. So we brought in motherboard contributor

and hacker reporting legend Kim Zetter, who just wrote a piece for New York Times magazine called

The Crisis of Election Security. It doesn't call out Russian hackers as a key threat to American democracy.

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