Hackers Easily Breach U.S. Voting Machines in Chilling 'Kill Chain' Trailer

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Hackers Easily Breach U.S. Voting Machines in Chilling 'Kill Chain' Trailer
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The new trailer for the HBO doc, 'Kill Chain,' highlights just how easy it is for bad actors to tamper with America's voting process

The vulnerabilities of the United States’ election system are highlighted in the unnerving new trailer for the documentary,The clip starts by taking on one of the major misconceptions about American voting machines — that concerns about hacking are unwarranted because voting machines don’t connect to the internet.

The clip goes on to highlight the work of one of the film’s central characters, the Finnish hacker and cybersecurity expert, Harri Hursti. It also teases an interview with an anonymous hacker from India known as CyberZeist, who said he hacked Alaska’s vote-counting computer systems on the day of the 2016 election. “I had full access,” he says. “I could have changed any vote.”was directed by Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels and Sarah Teale.

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