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Henderson County elections director answers if it is possible to hack local voting machines

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Scenes from 2022 early, one-stop voting in Henderson County.

Scenes from 2022 early, one-stop voting in Henderson County.

Henderson County Elections Director Karen Hebb discussed with the board of commissioners Monday night whether or not it is possible to hack local voting machines.

Chair Bill Lapsley said the commissioners have been asked about whether or not hacking the machines is possible. At the beginning of the commissioners’ meeting, Henderson County resident Karl Gessler called the election machines untrustworthy and said recent elections have been rigged. He requested that the commissioners “not pay for election-rigging machines.”

“One of the questions that we get asked on occasion is does our elections board staff check to make sure no one is hacking into our election machines,” Lapsley said to Hebb. “That to me is a very serious insinuation, and I would like to hear from you that you are aware of that charge and that you do whatever is necessary to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

“First off, there is no way to hack into our machines,” Hebb said. “There is no modem, there is no way that you can access the machine.”

“Once the machine reads the ballot, it stores the information on a thumb drive. We take that thumb drive out after the polls are closed and upload to a computer that has never been hooked to the internet. The information is then placed on another thumb drive that is taken to a separate computer and uploaded to the state and then that thumb drive is never used again,” she said.

“So, there is no way that anyone can get into our machines or get into our coding because it is never hooked to the internet, and there is no way it can be hacked,” according to the elections director.

“We keep all of our machines in a locked cage… we have a lock that is accessed with your thumb, so only employees are able to come into where our machines are kept; our programming room is always locked when we are not using it, so we try everything we can to make sure there is double security as far as the machines go and it cannot be accessed,” said Hebb.

Scenes from 2022 early, one-stop voting in Henderson County.

Scenes from 2022 early, one-stop voting in Henderson County.

Vice Chair Rebecca McCall asked Hebb if random audits, such as hand counts…

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58 Pieces Of Information That Feel Illegal To Know (New Answers)

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The things that you know, all the skills that you’ve honed over the years—all of these can give you a massive advantage in life. Sure, pretty much everyone knows the phrase that knowledge is power, but how often do we realize how true that is? And sometimes that knowledge can make people feel guilty that they know it at all. The burden’s just too big to bear.

Some bits of info feel practically illegal to know even if they’re technically not. From being able to pick locks to knowing how atomic bombs work and how people taste and more, Reddit users opened up about the most esoteric, ‘forbidden’ pieces of knowledge they’ve accidentally stumbled upon.

We’ve collected the most honest and intriguing insights from these two r/AskReddit threads right here and here to give you a glimpse into a darker, more uncomfortable side of real-life, Pandas. Read on, upvote the answers that impressed you the most, and share your own bits of info that feel illegal to know in the comments. But before you do, take a look around to check if the FBI and CIA aren’t nearby in an unmarked white van.

Pssst, Pandas, if you’d like even more captivating but dark facts, you should definitely check out Bored Panda’s earlier article right here.

Bored Panda reached out to Steven Wooding for a chat about ‘forbidden’ knowledge, limiting access to information, and responsibility. Steven is a member of the Institute of Physics in the UK and part of the Omni Calculator Project team. He created the Weird Units Converter.

“There have to be some limits to information, for the protection of the general public and those trying to use such information,” Steven shared with us. “One area where this is common is in the field of computer security. The fine details of how to do an exploit are withheld to stop low-level hackers from simply following a recipe to cause havoc on the internet. We mustn’t make it too easy for bad people to do bad things.” Read on for the full interview.

Steven absolutely believes that people have more and more responsibility, the more information they know. “If you know potential dangerous information, you should protect it from the general public, or more specifically, people…

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A guy made £20,000 by hacking into a uni and selling exam answers to students

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One second-year student paid him £6,500

A man made £20,000 by hacking into a uni and selling exam answers to students – but has now been jailed for 20 months after his exploits were discovered.

Hayder Aljayyash cracked the University of South Wales’ computer systems while studying for a master’s, and sold the papers for thousands. One second-year paid him £6,500.

Embedded system design student Aljayyash enlisted an accomplice, his housemate Noureldien Eltarki, to find students to buy the hacked answers, and paid him £300-£400 for every student he found.

The venture was only discovered when a lecturer realised students were regurgitating answers from his mark scheme. Maths lecturer Liam Harris even realised five students had copied spelling mistakes from his model papers.

By that time, Aljayyash had used staff log-in details to get into the university network nearly 700 times, using a keylogger in different classrooms to collect passwords.

The University of South Wales estimated that the crimes cost it over £100,000. It set up a “war room” to investigate the hack and had to pay for new security measures.

After the lecturer became suspicious, the university went through 140 million log records and eventually detected an IP address linked to the house where Aljayyash and Eltarki were living.

Police arrested Aljayyash on 30th May 2019, and seized £17,000 in cash, USB sticks and a laptop which held files matching those downloaded from the university.

At the trial, Cardiff Crown Court heard that Aljayyash had since moved to Doncaster and was volunteering to help asylum seekers use the internet.

However, judge Wynn Morgan said the scheme was “planned and consistent” and motivated by “financial greed”.

Eltarki’s lawyer, Susan Ferrier, said he realised he had made as “stupid a decision as he could have.” The judge told him it was clear the scheme was not his idea, but his part in it was “self-evidently wrong”.

Eltarki, who is from Libya, plead guilty to agreeing to sell unlawfully obtained exams. He was given a nine-month suspended sentence and ordered to undertake 200 hours of unpaid work.

Aljayyash, who is an asylum seeker from Iraq, pleaded guilty…

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