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Explore critical vulnerabilities in voting system physical security defenses during this DEF CON 33 Voting Village conference talk. Examine how traditional security measures like keyed locks and tamper-evident seals create a false sense of security in voting systems, despite being fundamental components of election infrastructure protection. Discover why the assumption that hardware attack surfaces can be sufficiently limited through physical barriers fails under scrutiny, even when voters interact with systems in semi-private voting booth environments. Learn about substantial weaknesses in the design, configuration, and deployment of defensive devices through analysis of publicly available sources from vendors, jurisdictions, and other entities. Understand the implications for election security when these physical protections are cited as sufficient mitigations for known vulnerabilities in deployed voting systems, and why additional remediation efforts remain necessary beyond existing procedural protections.
