Hackers at Convention to Ferret Out Election System Bugs

Hackers at Convention to Ferret Out Election System Bugs
Participants are silhouetted as they pass through the IOT (Internet of Things) Village during the Def Con hacker convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., July 29, 2017. Steve Marcus/Reuters/File Photo
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Def Con, one of the world’s largest hacker conventions, will serve as a laboratory for breaking into voting machines this week, extending its efforts to identify potential security flaws in technology that may be used in the November U.S. elections.

The three-day “Voting Village,” which opens in Las Vegas on Friday, also aims to expose vulnerabilities in devices such as digital poll books and memory-card readers.