{"id":28288,"date":"2018-08-22T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28288"},"modified":"2018-08-22T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T19:15:23","slug":"the-cyber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28288","title":{"rendered":"The Cyber"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/08\/21\/i-just-hacked-a-state-election-17-not-a-good-hacker-219374\">It took me around 10 minutes<\/a> to crash the upcoming midterm elections. Once I accessed the shockingly simple and vulnerable set of tables that make up the state election board\u2019s database, I was able to shut down the website that would tally the votes, bringing the election to a screeching halt. The data were lost completely. And just like that, tens of thousands of votes vanished into thin air, throwing an entire election, and potentially control of the House or Senate\u2014not to mention our already shaky confidence in the democratic process itself\u2014into even more confusion, doubt, and finger-pointing.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m 17. And I\u2019m not even a very good hacker. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me around 10 minutes to crash the upcoming midterm elections. Once I accessed the shockingly simple and vulnerable set of tables that make up the state election board\u2019s database, I was able to shut down the website that would tally the votes, bringing the election to a screeching halt. The data were lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28289,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28288\/revisions\/28289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}