A Brazilian hacker claims then-President Jair Bolsonaro asked him to hack the country’s electronic voting system to expose its alleged weaknesses ahead of the 2022 presidential election.

Brazilian hacker claims Bolsonaro asked him to hack into the voting system ahead of 2022 vote::A Brazilian hacker claims then-President Jair Bolsonaro asked him to hack the country’s electronic voting system to expose its alleged weaknesses ahead of the 2022 presidential election.

    • Brisolo32English
      2·
      1 year ago

      i still remember the day where a “software engineer” that was saying that the election was rigged wrote “if voto22 == than voto13” claiming that to be a hack

    • ChapolinColoradoNZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      1 year ago

      “A voting machine” he says. One machine or the elections? I thought bozo was the dumb fuck but I might be wrong.

      • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        No, the request wasn’t to hack the election, it was to show it was possible so they could claim it was stolen if he lost. Any single point of weakness would have been sufficient.