Turns out that busted Iowa Caucuses app was also extremely hackable
When it comes to the integrity of our elections, it's important to remember that things can always get worse.
That painful truth was ground even deeper into our skulls today with the revelation that the busted app responsible in part for the flat out disaster of a Feb. 3 Iowa Caucus also happened to be extremely hackable. That's right, according to security researchers who analyzed the app's code, it would have been possible for bad actors to change vote counts.
So reports ProPublica, which asked the security company Veracode to look over the IowaReporterApp. What Veracode found definitely did not reassure. In addition to potentially being able to change vote tallies, Veracode told ProPublica that passwords could have been intercepted. Read more...
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