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“Like, is this going to be a state actor? Is it going to be a disgruntled employee? Is it going to be, you know, a script kiddie in a basement?”

He said that he did not believe Russia was involved, but that if a “script kiddie could do this,” one could only imagine what could be done with the backing of Russia’s intelligence services.

“This could be done by any script kiddie,” he said, using a term for an unsophisticated hacker relying on widely available software.

According to InfoWorld, “Every independently audited voting computer has been shown to contain numerous, basic, easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities. A fresh report from the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology puts it succinctly. “Voter machines, technically, are so riddled with vulnerabilities that even an upstart script kiddie could wreak havoc.”

Almost immediately, commentators in Russian-language chat rooms posted instructions on how to become a “script kiddie,” an amateur hacker.