From Election Defense Alliance:
"On December 13, 2005, Supervisor
of Elections, Ion Sancho, arranged for a test of the Leon County Florida voting system to see if election results could be
altered, without detection, with access to only a single memory card. Harri Hursti's involvement in this test was documented
in the video "Hacking Democracy," which aired on HBO just prior to the November 2006 general election (we will be showing
a clip). The successful attack on optically scanned equipment, now known as the "Hursti Hack," resulted in re-examination
of election equipment in California and Florida.
"Since then, Harri has produced another hack, called Hursti II, which involved touchscreen
bootloaders. This finding resulted in Pennsylvania having to re-flash many of its voting units before the 2006 primary election.
"Harri will provide the details of these hacks, and will discuss the significance of his
results with impacts on election technology deployment in the US and abroad. Harri Hursti is a computer programmer
who specializes in network and telecommunications security.
"As Chairman of the Board and co-founder of ROMmon, he supervised the development of the
world's smallest 2 gigabit traffic analysis product. Harri was also the visionary and co-designer behind the first commercial
public email and online forum system in Finland, the representative in UNESCO for computer aided education, and the Vice-President of the European
Internet Service Providers Association."
