View source for 2018/07/17/Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States

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[[title/short::Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States]]
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* '''when''': [[when posted::2018/07/17]]
* '''author''': [[author::Kim Zetter]]
* '''source''': [[site::Motherboard]]
* '''topics''': [[topic::Election Systems & Software]] [[topic::voting machine]] [[topic::election hacking]]
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* '''link''': [[URL::https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states]]
* '''title''': [[title::Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States]]
* '''summary''': [[Summary::&ldquo;[[Election Systems & Software|The nation's top voting machine maker]] has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, raising questions about the security of those systems and the integrity of elections that were conducted with them.&rdquo;]]
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In a letter sent to Sen. [[Ron Wyden]] (D-OR) in April and obtained recently by [[Motherboard]], [[Election Systems & Software|Election Systems and Software]] acknowledged that it had "provided pcAnywhere remote connection software ... to a small number of customers between 2000 and 2006," which was installed on the election-management system ES&S sold them.

The statement contradicts what the company [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/21/magazine/the-myth-of-the-hacker-proof-voting-machine.html told me and fact checkers] for a story I wrote for the ''[[New York Times]]'' in February. At that time, a spokesperson said ES&S had never installed pcAnywhere on any election system it sold. "None of the employees, ... including long-tenured employees, has any knowledge that our voting systems have ever been sold with remote-access software," the spokesperson said.
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* '''via''': [https://politics.slashdot.org/story/18/07/18/1237236/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states Slashdot]
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