{"id":5831,"date":"2008-03-21T09:59:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T16:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2008-03-21T09:59:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T16:59:38","slug":"sequoia-voting-systems-website-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5831","title":{"rendered":"Sequoia Voting Systems Website Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogged quickly by Brad from Palo Alto, CA…<\/em><\/p>\n

We can’t think of a clever enough turn of phrase this morning to adequately cover the full irony here… Via Computerworld…<\/a><\/p>\n

A company whose e-voting machines have come under fire from election officials in New Jersey confirmed today that its Web site had been hacked.<\/p>\n

A section of Sequoia Voting Systems Inc.’s Web site was hacked overnight, and when the company realized what had happened, it took the site down and removed the “intrusive content,” Sequoia spokeswoman Michelle Shafer said via e-mail.<\/p>\n

Sequoia made “security enhancements” to protect the site from further hacking, and it was back online this afternoon, Shafer said. The company is investigating the origin of the attack.<\/p><\/div>\n

Not enough irony yet? Add this…<\/p>\n

The hack was noticed Thursday morning by Ed Felten, a computer scientist who has been asked to investigate voting-machine discrepancies in the state’s primary election.<\/div>\n

Yes, that would be the same Ed Felten, computer science professor of Princeton, who last week was sent a threatening email from a Sequoia executive<\/a>, warning of legal trouble should he dare examine the Sequoia AVC Advantage touch-screen voting machines which failed<\/a> in New Jersey’s Primary Election in February.<\/p>\n

In the wake of this latest PR nightmare for the company, as John Gideon pointed out last night<\/a>, they’ve decided to mount a Campaign of Lies<\/a> instead of simply allowing their “tamperproof” e-voting systems to be examined by a third party. Brilliant strategy, guys. As usual.<\/p>\n

The same failed Sequoia touch-screen systems, which have never<\/i> been tested by any independent third-party, are currently set for use in Pennsylvania’s Primary next month. We continue to encourage readers to click here to encourage NJ’s AG<\/a> to immediately commission a complete technical review of NJ’s voting machines to determine what went wrong.<\/p>\n

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Blogged quickly by Brad from Palo Alto, CA… We can’t think of a clever enough turn of phrase this morning to adequately cover the full irony here… Via Computerworld… A company whose e-voting machines have come under fire from election officials in New Jersey confirmed today that its Web site had been hacked. A section […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,6,50,48,144,39],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-new-jersey","category-pennsylvania","category-princeton-university","category-sequoia-voting-systems","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=5831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}