Hacking: It’s Child Play
While hack politicians like John McCain keep playing the “Russia card,” kids at a Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas prove that you don’t have to be Russian to hack the poor security behind our election system. The children, between the ages of 8 and 17, were tasked with hacking into replica election office websites in key “battleground” states where the upcoming US midterm elections in November are expected to be tight.
Of the 39 contestants who entered, 35 were successful in breaking into the sites with the fastest being 11-year old Audrey Jones. She cracked the site’s code in just 10 minutes.
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