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Hacking Sweden’s election with pen and paper In Sweden’s recent election, a small collection of crafty programmers appear to have attempted to hack the voting database with a pen-and-paper attack. While most people use pre-printed ballot papers to vote with, the country’s election law dictates that you’re allowed to write your vote out by hand, and one person appears to have attempted to take advantage of this, to use an SQL injection to destroy the database. » via Wired, infoneer-pulse

Hacking Sweden’s election with pen and paper

In Sweden’s recent election, a small collection of crafty programmers appear to have attempted to hack the voting database with a pen-and-paper attack.

While most people use pre-printed ballot papers to vote with, the country’s election law dictates that you’re allowed to write your vote out by hand, and one person appears to have attempted to take advantage of this, to use an SQL injection to destroy the database.

» via Wired, infoneer-pulse

  1. ubchant said: REALLY old school SQL Injection attack. Shocking thing is that they actually looked at the votes.
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    very interesting idea.
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