{"id":4199,"date":"2007-02-26T18:08:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T02:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?page_id=4199"},"modified":"2007-09-25T12:58:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T19:58:59","slug":"special-coverage-the-riverside-county-sequoia-hack-challenge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?page_id=4199","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL COVERAGE: The Riverside County Sequoia Hack Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p><strong>ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTS&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3885#more-3885\">Text Transcript of actual challenge&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3885\">Videos of challenge&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Previous Known Sequoia Hacks:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2628\">Pro E-Vote Professor Accidentally Hacks Sequoia  Voting System<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3714\">Sequoia&#8217;s &#8216;Yellow Button&#8217; Allows Voters to Vote As Many Times as They Want<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4141\">Princeton Prof. Buys Sequoia System on Internet, Hacks It in 10 Seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BRAD BLOG COVERAGE&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n12\/6\/06: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3885\"><strong>RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA SUPERVISOR BETS &#8216;A THOUSAND TO ONE&#8217; THAT HIS SEQUOIA VOTING MACHINES CAN&#8217;T BE HACKED!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Challenges Election Integrity Advocates to &#8216;See if Your Programmer Can Manipulate That Machine&#8217; at Public, Video Taped Meeting!<\/em><br \/>\nInvites Media to Witness Challenge!<\/p>\n<p>12\/12\/06: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3908\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: Renowned Computer Security Expert Agrees to Meet California County Supervisor&#8217;s &#8216;1000 to 1&#8217; Challenge to &#8216;Manipulate&#8217; Sequoia Voting Machine!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Harri Hursti &#8212; The Lead Programmer Who Hacked Diebold Systems in Both Florida and Utah &#8212; Looking Forward to Testing the Security Vulnerability of Riverside County&#8217;s Systems!<\/em><br \/>\nElection Integrity Individuals, Group, Stake $1000 for Charity on Supervisor Jeff Stone&#8217;s Offer!<\/p>\n<p>12\/13\/06: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3910\"><strong>&#8216;RIVERSIDE CHALLENGE&#8217;: County Supervisors, Voting Machine Company Begin to go Wobbly<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Press Coverage Reveals Board of Supervisors, Sequoia Laying Groundwork to Try and Wriggle Out of &#8216;1000 to 1&#8217; Bet Their Voting Machines Can&#8217;t Be Hacked&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>12\/19\/06: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3928\"><strong>&#8216;RIVERSIDE CHALLENGE&#8217;: &#8216;Hot Rod Harri&#8217;s Fight to the Finnish&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1\/5\/07: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3988\"><strong>California County Official Who Dared &#8216;Hackers&#8217; to Manipulate Voting System Gets Desperate!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Sends Letter to Outgoing CA Sec. of State Attempting to Create New Conditions for Hack Test! Computer Security Experts Deride!<\/em><br \/>\nEXCLUSIVE: Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone&#8217;s Complete Letter to SoS Bruce McPherson<\/p>\n<p>1\/18\/07: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4043\"><strong>Jeff Stone: The Coward of Riverside County?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The California County Supervisor Continues to Hide Behind Unrealistic &#8216;Conditions&#8217; on His Sequoia Voting Machine &#8216;Hack Challenge&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\nCOLUMNIST: &#8216;A test that doesn&#8217;t allow the hacker to work on the machines as handled prior to the election and after it is no real test at all.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>2\/10\/07: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4141\"><strong>SEQUOIA TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING MACHINES HACKED, FOUND VULNERABLE TO VOTE-FLIPPING BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>New Jersey Attorney to Ask Judge for Decertification of Company&#8217;s &#8216;AVC Advantage&#8217; System After Machines Found Untested by State<\/em><br \/>\nPrinceton Professor Paid $86 For Online Purchase of 5 Machines That a NJ County Paid $40,000 for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2\/26\/07: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4196\"><strong>EXCLUSIVE: California SoS Finds No State Law to Prohibit Proposed Riverside County &#8216;Hack Test&#8217; of Sequoia Touch-Screen Machines!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>But Secretary Bowen Says Board of Supes Proposed &#8216;Ground Rules&#8217; for Test &#8216;Overly Narrow&#8217;, &#8216;Would Prove Little and Give Voters False Sense of Security&#8217;<\/em><br \/>\nSupervisor Stone&#8217;s Hope for SoS Participation in &#8216;1000 to 1&#8217; Bet with Election Integrity Advocates under Unilateral, Unrealistic Restrictions Flatly Rejected by State&#8217;s New Election Chief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>3\/28\/07: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4332\"><strong>HACKIN&#8217; HARRI HURSTI TO APPEAR BEFORE PANEL IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Finnish Security Expert to Appear, Give Testimony This Friday Before County&#8217;s &#8216;Blue Ribbon&#8217; Commission Investigating Complaints About Local Election System<\/em><br \/>\nNo Word on Whether Gamblin&#8217; County Supervisor, Jeff &#8216;1000 to 1&#8217; Stone, Will Be in Attendance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>4\/1\/07: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4347\"><strong>Hackin&#8217; Harri Hursti a Hit in Riverside County, California<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>As we Sit Down for a One-on-One Debriefing with the Finnish Computer Security Expert and Discuss American Elections, Rush Holt&#8217;s Reform Bill, Debra Bowen, &#8216;Black Hats&#8217; and Why Elections Matter<\/em><br \/>\nBig Turnout and Good Press Coverage Accompany his Riverside Visit, Even if Jeff &#8216;1000 to 1&#8217; Stone Was a No Show&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>7\/13\/07: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4816\"><strong>&#8216;Blue Ribbon&#8217; Committee to Riverside County, CA Board of Supes: Dump DRE Touch-Screen Voting Systems!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Enormous Victory as Dogged Citizen Advocacy Finally Pays Off!<\/em><br \/>\nCommittee Also Recommends Security Audit of Registrar&#8217;s Office in First County in America to Move to Touch-Screen Voting Systems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>8\/18\/07: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4973\"><strong>Riverside County, CA to Hold Sequoia Accountable for Lies, Faulty Voting Machines?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>If So, Let the Fraud Suits Begin!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>9\/20\/07: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5087\"><strong>Riverside County, CA Board of Supes to Sequoia Voting Systems: &#8216;Drop Dead&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Board Members Threaten &#8216;Not Another Dime&#8217; For Company That Has Failed Them to the Tune of $27 Million So Far<\/em><br \/>\nThe Time is Now for Accountability&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"BBTOORepost\">Please make an online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=TheBradBlog@cville.com&#038;item_name=Riverside+Hack+Challenge+at+The+BRAD+BLOG&#038;item_number=123456\"><b>donation to The BRAD BLOG<\/b><\/a> in order to help continue this investigation and many others.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTS&#8230; Text Transcript of actual challenge&#8230; Videos of challenge&#8230; Previous Known Sequoia Hacks: Pro E-Vote Professor Accidentally Hacks Sequoia Voting System Sequoia&#8217;s &#8216;Yellow Button&#8217; Allows Voters to Vote As Many Times as They Want Princeton Prof. Buys Sequoia System on Internet, Hacks It in 10 Seconds BRAD BLOG COVERAGE&#8230; 12\/6\/06: RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA SUPERVISOR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}