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humans are so scared of a little robot competition you won't even let us on the field


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You humans are so scared of a little robot competition you won't even let us on the field!~ Bender Futurama s1e5 Fear of a bot planet

RSA 2012 Security experts have warned that electronic voting systems are decades away from being secure, and to prove it a team from the University of Michigan successfully got the foul-mouthed, drunken Futurama robot Bender elected to head of a school board.

In 2010 the Washington DC election board announced it had set up an e-voting system for absentee ballots and was planning to use it in an election. However, to test the system, it invited the security community and members of the public to try and hack it three weeks before the election.

"It was too good an opportunity to pass up," explained Professor Alex Halderman from the University of Michigan. "How often do you get the chance to hack a government network without the possibility of going to jail?"

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/01/electronic_voting_hacked_bender/

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