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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.
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.
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.
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is coming.
False dichotomy. She lost. Enough of her dirt got out. Get over it.
CNN will never fully recover. Credibility is very slow to come back. They aren't even trying yet, more like doubling down. CNN is with MSNBC now, the stink won't wash off.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
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.
This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
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.