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Today, Explained

Can I hack it? (Yes, you can.)

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Hacking our elections is so easy, a 7-year-old can do it. (Really.) How we got here and why the best solution is one you might not expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know what time it is?

0:01.6

It's today, explain time, but it's also finally time for the Viper Club to be showing in

0:07.1

theaters nationwide.

0:09.3

The movie stars Susan Sarandon as a mother, trying to get back her journalist son and

0:14.7

kind of striking out on her own to do so because the government can't help.

0:19.6

Viper Club starring Susan Sarandon in theaters in New York and Los Angeles and other places

0:25.6

too.

0:31.0

Logan Lam is what is known in the business as a White Hat hacker.

0:36.6

So there are black hat hackers and those are the bad guys who go into systems and do, you

0:42.0

know, nefarious things.

0:43.7

And then there are White Hat hackers whose job it is basically to figure out whether

0:48.2

not systems are secure.

0:52.5

He decided to start looking into the election systems in Georgia because people had been

0:57.5

talking about it during the 2016 campaigns.

1:02.3

He starts poking around in the election systems center which is at a university in Georgia

1:09.4

called Kenisau State.

1:11.2

And that's where all of the election data is organized.

1:16.6

He wrote a little program to just see what he could find within that website and he was

1:23.0

shocked because it had downloaded all sorts of information that should have been private,

1:29.3

should have been behind a firewall.

1:38.3

He found every single voter in the voter database so that it looks something like 6.7 million

1:45.9

voters.

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