Michigan Attackers: Washington Post lauds U-M hacker team

Wednesday, November 3, 2010 | Source: The Washington Post
Hackers haven't only become a good thing at the University of Michigan, their exploits are now fodder for a string of good headlines about Ann Arbor and how its techies are protecting democracy.

Excerpt:

Last month, the District conducted an Internet voting experiment that resulted in a team from the University of Michigan infiltrating election computers so completely that they were able to modify every ballot cast and all election outcomes without ever leaving their offices. They also retrieved the username and password for every eligible overseas voter who had signed up to participate. The team even defended the system against attackers from China and Iran. More than any other event in recent years, this test illustrates the extreme national security danger of Internet voting.

Read the rest of the story here and more about U-M hackers at Yahoo's HackU competition here.
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