An 11-year-old was able to hack Florida election results in less than 10 minutes

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• At a hacking conference, an 11-year-old was able to hack into mock election results and manipulate data in only 10 minutes.
• Emmett Brewer was one of 39 kids who took part in the "DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village," where they tampered with replica election results.
• "It would be extremely difficult to replicate these systems since many states utilize unique networks and custom-built databases with new and updated security protocols," the National Association of Secretaries of State said in a statement.

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At DEF CON, the world’s largest hacking conference, in Las Vegas over the weekend, it took an 11-year-old only 10 minutes to hack into a replica Florida Secretary of State website and change election results.

Emmett Brewer was one of 39 children between the ages of 6 and 17 taking part in the "DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village," where they attempted to change party names, election results, and candidate names on six replica state websites.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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