“A Terrible Vulnerability”: Cybersecurity Researcher Discovers Yet Another Flaw in Georgia’s Voter Cancellation Portal

www.propublica.org

TrippyFocus ( @TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml )

Politics • 7 months ago

1

20

“A Terrible Vulnerability”: Cybersecurity Researcher Discovers Yet Another Flaw in Georgia’s Voter Cancellation Portal

www.propublica.org

TrippyFocus ( @TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml )

Politics • 7 months ago

1

The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name, date of birth and county of residence — information that is easily discoverable online.

HotTopNewOld

Chat

HumbleFlamingo ( @HumbleFlamingo@beehaw.org )
link
fedilink
3•7 months ago
Pretty sure that was by design…

Politics

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !politics@beehaw.org

In-depth political discussion from around the world; if it’s a political happening, you can post it here.

Guidelines for submissions:

Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
Social media should be a source of last resort.

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

Socialism

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

29 users / day
78 users / week
359 users / month
834 users / 6 months
10.3K subscribers
2.55K Posts
16.8K Comments
Modlog