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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.
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.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
Look at how Canadian elections are handled. You can't hack paper ballots via viruses or computer networks.
#DeleteFacebook
No, because stuffing meatbags into polling booths is the least effective, most costly and the most easily detected form of electoral fraud. Might as well be defending democracy from unicorns.
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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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Yes, that Jim Jones. Of Jonestown. The one we got the phrase "drink the Kool-aid" from (even though it was actually Fla-Vor-Aid). Full confession viewable at: http://www.salon.com/2012/05/0...
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
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!
They closed the entire DMV for several years in order to prevent people from acquiring an ID? The freaking blog you pointed to is a lie, there are a lot of other things going on into making those decisions, you can get an ID at the post office, from the DMV through the mail or online. You need an ID to buy booze, medicine and cigarettes, you're saying no black person buys booze, medicine or cigarettes?
If you close 31 DMV offices you do not "save only $100,000" ... argh, there is just so much wrong with this that it's not even worth pointing out. If it isn't obvious that this is partisan bullshit grasping at straws to make a point then you're dumber than you realize..
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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.
Funny. When Obama is in office "Stock Market is a fraud" "Unemployment numbers are a lie"
When Trump gets elected "Stock market baby" "Unemployment record low".
People think "Trump is doing well, market hit a new high of 23k". But no one said anything when it hit 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 under Obama...
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!"