Alex Halderman will bring his experiences dissecting the world’s voting machines to the CyberSec & AI Prague conference in October
Alex Halderman was researching election hacking a decade before the 2016 U.S. presidential race made it front-page news. The computer science professor at the University of Michigan brought change to India’s elections, turned a U.S. voting machine into a Pac-Man arcade game, and warned Congress twice about the vulnerabilities that await 2020’s U.S. elections.
Yet he is bringing a decidedly low-tech solution – a return to the backup of a “paper trail” for ballots – to one of cybersecurity’s biggest challenges when he speaks to the top minds in artificial intelligence at the CyberSec & AI Prague conference in October.
Halderman has researched elections in India, Estonia, Australia, and the United States and found that – as in other areas of modern life – tech can introduce as well as address cybersecurity problems. “Countries around the world are turning to computer technology and internet-connected systems to try to make elections better, but the fact is that opens up whole new categories of risk.”
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In India he dissected a voting machine praised by the government but derided by whistleblowers, and found numerous vulnerabilities. Among them, hackers could simply change the LED readout of vote totals – akin to hacking the scoreboard to win the game. India has since implemented a “paper trail’ that can track each vote cast. Halderman believes that solution could benefit other democracies.
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