Saturday 24 February 2018

Trump's election commissioners think the threat of hacking is no big deal

Trump's election commissioners think the threat of hacking is no big deal

The intelligence community fears that Russia’s meddling in US elections did not end in November 2016, and that when the Kremlin tries to intervene again, state and local voting systems will be a prime target. “They will be back,” former FBI Director James Comey warned in June. Many election systems would prove an easy target. Last month, hackers at the annual DEF Con conference demonstrated this vulnerability when they easily breached multiple voting machines. A 16-year-old hacked a machine in 45 minutes.
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/trump-election-commissioners-are-resisting-efforts-to-protect-elections-from-hacking/?source=Snapzu

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