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GEOFF PALMER Startup seeks to rival the famous universities Hacker claims Chinese defense contractor breach Quickflix ink deal with ITV Arizona bill outlaws ‘annoying’ online Paramount adds 500 films to YouTube Google Art Project premieres upgrades Banking, shopping and job hunting online China lifts microblog controls US student expelled for profane tweet Patton Oswalt to host Webby Awards In 2010, Washington DC unveiled its state of the art internet-based electronic voting system. To demonstrate it, it held a unique public trial: a mock school board election in which people were invited to test the new system and even, they challenged confidently, try to compromise its security. Within days of it going live, an unlisted election candidate – one Bender Bending Rodriguez, also known simply as Bender from the TV series Futurama – was the leading contender, with 100% of the vote. Details of the attack came to light at a conference in February. The attack was undertaken by Professor Alexander Halderman from the University of Michigan and two of his graduate students. Halderman noted, “How often do you get the chance to hack a government network without the possibility of going to jail?” Within 48 hours the trio had gained [...]
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