I mean, they’re notorious for hacking, and even did a supply chain attack with beepers.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they did voip voting via VPN or such. I’d imagine a nation state hacking a song contest would be trivial by comparison.
I had this idea, but don’t know how to implement it, that if a mass poll was done globally on voting, it could be used to see if any cheating occur. With the high amount of points Israel got, it wouldn’t take much deviation to have evidence that the audience vote was manipulated.
Yeah, not 100% sure how it’s implemented, but if you compromise a mobile app with the right permissions you could probably send the SMS from what’s essentially a botnet.
Voting is exlusively via SMS, the voting app also just sends an SMS and so does the website. The only country not doing televoting is San Marino, too small and relies on Italy, if you send an SMS from there it’ll be probably counted as Italy. SMS is a crappy system and you can put whatever you want as sender (sometimes for codes you get an SMS not even from a number, but from a name because there’s no restriction on that). You can pretend to be someone else relatively easy and the receiver has no way of checking if it’s even a real number.
I’m sure that’s some cheating going on as well with throwaway Sims or outright buying votes.
I mean, they’re notorious for hacking, and even did a supply chain attack with beepers.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they did voip voting via VPN or such. I’d imagine a nation state hacking a song contest would be trivial by comparison.
I had this idea, but don’t know how to implement it, that if a mass poll was done globally on voting, it could be used to see if any cheating occur. With the high amount of points Israel got, it wouldn’t take much deviation to have evidence that the audience vote was manipulated.
Yeah, not 100% sure how it’s implemented, but if you compromise a mobile app with the right permissions you could probably send the SMS from what’s essentially a botnet.
Voting is exlusively via SMS, the voting app also just sends an SMS and so does the website. The only country not doing televoting is San Marino, too small and relies on Italy, if you send an SMS from there it’ll be probably counted as Italy. SMS is a crappy system and you can put whatever you want as sender (sometimes for codes you get an SMS not even from a number, but from a name because there’s no restriction on that). You can pretend to be someone else relatively easy and the receiver has no way of checking if it’s even a real number.