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Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Reuters:
A bipartisan Harvard University project aimed at protecting elections from hacking and propaganda will release its first set of recommendations today on how U.S. elections can be defended from hacking attacks. The 27-page guidebook calls for campaign leaders to emphasize security from the start and insist on practices such as two-factor authentication for access to email and documents and fully encrypted messaging via services including Signal and Wickr. The guidelines are intended to reduce risks in low-budget local races as well as the high-stakes Congressional midterm contests next year.
Though most of the suggestions cost little or nothing to implement and will strike security professionals as common sense, notorious attacks including the leak of the emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, John Podesta, have succeeded because basic security practices were not followed... "We heard from campaigns that there is nothing like this that exists," said Debora Plunkett, a 31-year veteran of the National Security Agency who joined the Belfer Center this year. "We had security experts who understood security and election experts who understood campaigns, and both sides were eager to learn how the other part worked."
The group includes "top security experts" from both Google and Facebook.
Though most of the suggestions cost little or nothing to implement and will strike security professionals as common sense, notorious attacks including the leak of the emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, John Podesta, have succeeded because basic security practices were not followed... "We heard from campaigns that there is nothing like this that exists," said Debora Plunkett, a 31-year veteran of the National Security Agency who joined the Belfer Center this year. "We had security experts who understood security and election experts who understood campaigns, and both sides were eager to learn how the other part worked."
The group includes "top security experts" from both Google and Facebook.
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notorious attacks including the leak of the emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, John Podesta
Someone who wants to be one of the most powerful persons in the world falling for a simple phishing attempt is now a "notorious attack".
If someone on your company network did that, you'd call him a foolish idiot and take away his computer.
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Between the meandering redistricting and Fox News - that goes out of its way to misinform their viewers - who needs foreign hacking?
And an electorate that refuses to actually learn the issues but instead listens to only what it wants to hear, we are just headed towards an "Idiocracy".
The election of a reality TV show host is the start. Trump just shows how stupid we've become as a society.
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So which was it ? Because it seems to be a DNC thing to me. Which makes sense considering the DNC internal leak and Podesta phishing, wouldn't want your voters to know you're colluding with CNN for debate questions and rigging your primary.
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Fake stories and trolls fooled the American sheeple. You can't patch stupid.
Who is going to protect murdered DNC employees like Seth Rich when the leak ibformation that Hillary and the DNC are committing election fraud and financing fraud in the primaries?
Seems like it should be #1 to protect elections.
Look at how Canadian elections are handled. You can't hack paper ballots via viruses or computer networks.
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If they don't recommend photo ID for voters the whole thing is worthless. There is voter fraud on both sides of the political spectrum and the arguments against voter ID are actually quite racist.
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Render unto Ceasers...
1. "Stop breaking the law, asshole!"
2. Instant Runoff Voting
3. Blockchains
4. Purging instead of promoting the worst people within a party
5. Hiring security professionals based on qualification, not on their connections to your bribery machines.
But I suspect that none of these will be implemented because they aren't interested in secure elections, just holding power.
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that the security issues in our election system are intentional, so any 'tips' are really just pissing in the wind. Our elections are rigged, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader on who and why. But ask yourself who's running our government and who as been for most of the last 30 years.
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These guys have been scanning political sites and pointing out specific flaws too:
www.cybertical.com
If those that demand no Voter Identification were concerned for the poor, they'd facilitate the acquisition of ID, not seek ways to avoid it. After all, what's the best job you ever had where you didn't need to identify yourself? I'm just confused how anyone buys beer or cold medicine without an ID. WTF?
Only ONE party disapproves of measures to make our elections secure. Voter ID is NOT a function of America's "racist past" EVERY COUNTRY THAT'S not a dictatorship has some form of assuring that the person voting is entitled to. EVERY COUNTRY.
California liberals allege voter fraud, demand voter ID. LOL. Democrats think voter identification laws are important for their party elections, but think they're not important when it comes to our elections.
Maxine Waters, an advocate against voter ID, requires an ID to attend her town hall meeting.
Hillary Clinton's Book Tour. Valid Photo ID Required. Wait, isn't this suppressing minority turnout? Why's it racist when we do it in our super-important elections, but Hillary does it for her book-signing and suddenly it's not racist? Someone want to take a stab at this one?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Their political partisanship and profit motive should call into question any contributions they make.
Double reverse trolling? Nice try. Slovenia and Russia are indistinguishable.
Whenever someone says "Top Experts" I just want to hurl.
Who crowned these folks? The reporter with his community college degree and understanding of the topic? Top Security Experts -- name them, what makes them top?
Same goes for the Top Climate Scientists...really. Is there some sort of object rating system? Or is it simply the guy who talks to reporters the most or has the most citations in obscure, pay-to-publish journals?
The only reason to say "top scientists" is for some lazy journalist to say "what I am reporting is worthwhile and accurate". It is far easier to say Top Scientists than to actually persuade the reader of the veracity and value of the article. What it really comes down to is lazy journalists.
Rant complete for now!
Just disallow the GOP from winning elections. After all, none of this was ANY concern before Trump was elected, in fact Obama had stated numerous times that the election couldn't be hacked, that it was fair, that voter id wouldn't help, there is absolutely nothing wrong with how votes happen, etc.
This week we are being told that even if Judge Moore WINS his election in Alabama, he will not be seated as a Senator because the Senate does not allow sexual molesters to be members. He was never convicted nor admitted to it, however Franken is up to 4 admitted cases and not a word about him being a Senator.
It seems the rules are just going to be written so GOP is not allowed to win no matter what. If the rules would prevent a DNC member, they will be ignored.
Fuck you if you vote GOP, is the clear message I get from the DNC and DC in general these days.
As long as computers are involved in the tabulation or transmission of election results the concept of secure elections is laughable.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
Someone who has not spoken down to and lectured large parts of the USA would be a good start.
A person who can talk and keep talking to most average people in their state and all over the USA.
Not have a political party machine that induces US campaign staff and party workers to walk out with lots of internal party documents and give them to the US media.
Support charming, charismatic, honorable, ethical political leadership.
The Amercian voting public will find out what their political leadership like to do and who they are during the election cycle.
Dont run politicians with decades of complex issues and not expect the voting public to notice.
Find a candidate who can actually give a long speech all over their state or federally.
A political party that can not select good leadership internally and win a local election is not a sign of another skilled nation.
Domestic incompetence and party arrogance is the "result" of that party and its failed politics.
Have a better understanding of the US public and try to actually win an election.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
A few things bother me in the recommendations (not to say that they are not sensible, just that the need for them annoys me):
- Policy of email deletion, etc. I know I’m naïve (and perhaps unreasonable), but I feel that political campaigns should have nothing to hide. It would be more sensible (I feel) to train people to be fair, courteous, clear, unambiguous, etc., rather than training them to keep their dirty laundry secure or promptly eliminated. Even when they mention “the theft of donor data”, I feel queasy: certainly, they don’t want credit card information to be stolen, but why would they keep that in the first place? On the other hand, I am not convinced that donor identities and amounts paid ought to remain secret, especially those above a rather small amount.
- Having a damage-control policy. Same issue. A political campaign should have such a crystal-clear (and truthful) message, inside-out, that no “damaging revelations” should be possible/credible.
- Only trusting the cloud (i.e., only the pros can secure data, don’t try this at home): I imagine that this is a stark symptom of how unnecessarily difficult it is to properly set up (and maintain) server software. It really shouldn’t be, and fixing that problem should be a priority much higher than improving voice-controlled personal assistants or cloud-connected thermostats. Personal computing and the Internet were not intended to be a return to 1970s mainframes and I.T. rooms. I feel that the democratisation of information processing (free exchange, publishing, etc.) requires the ability to locally store, process and serve the data. Of course, having Google staff contribute to the paper may have had something to do with the recommendations...
Besides, those recommendations hardly seem to be specific to political campaigns. They would probably apply just as well to any business (at least, small- to medium-size) or organisation. In that case, weren’t there good cybersecurity guidelines available already?
https://www.belfercenter.org/c...
That's completely ridiculous, short-sighted crap. We're all supposed to trust our entire voting system to a tiny handful of companies? "We're completely invulnerable to any sort of subversion, because Technology. Trust us!"
I don't get where all this "propaganda" nonsense is coming from. On election day I put on my Red MAGA hat and proudly voted for Donald Trump. I didn't need Putin's approval on the matter. It seems that one political faction of the US assumed the other must not exist because it was so at odds with their views.
Sorry crazy leftists. This wasn't propaganda from Russia. This was a bunch of pissed off Americans who were tired of what Obama and his lefty loons have done to the place.
I should mention that every single house in my entire neighborhood had Trump signs in the driveway. One guy a few streets over had Trump lights on his roof. There was one Hillary sign probably in a 2 mile radius. I should mention I live in a historically blue city.
Propaganda? Really. Hmf.
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From "propaganda"? WTF does that mean, in this context?
Foreign propaganda rather than domestic propaganda, I would assume. Maybe I'll RTFA to confirm/correct that.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
emphasize security from the start and insist on practices such as two-factor authentication for access to email and documents and fully encrypted messaging
But.... But... That's for pedophiles and terrorists.
The fact that it's from Harvard means it will be chock full of PC BS and other garbage endorsed by the Left without a modicum of common sense anywhere to be found...