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Hackers scour voting machines for election bugs

By Reuters
01 August 2017   |   2:00 pm
Hackers attending this weekend's Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas were invited to break into voting machines and voter databases in a bid to uncover vulnerabilities that could be exploited to sway election results.

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