Hackers and Elections -- Why The Russians Tried and Failed (11:00 mark)

[ancianita]

Last edited Tue Jul 30, 2019, 03:37 PM - Edit history (1)

Lessons for the world about our 2016 election.

Everything we have is online. Everything in our critical infrastructure is online.

U.S. vote hacking is difficult because of our extensive distribution and county-level differences.

But the Russians tried.

Internet voting is a bad idea, for obvious reasons. It doesn't solve current problems and exposes the U.S. to new ones -- lack of home privacy in home voting; voting by text message, etc.

Putin's response about how "there's no need to distract the public about who did it [stole Clinton's and Podesta's emails) tells us how foreign targeting by the Duke Family of attackers gets covered up. No meetings by Trump with Putin will create any reasonable expectation for the West that Putin can ever be an ally.

And so the Duke malware families of attackers carry on with no concern, because they are state sponsored and untouchable, they think.

Russia is on the move to conquer more than just elections.

They fear us. Our hacker nation. Not our hacker teens.

[Control-Z]

1. K&R

Bookmarking to listen later.

[Nitram]

2. No, Putin succeeded. Trump won the election, and the nation is more divided than ever.

Even if Trump had lost, it was a lot of chaos created at very little cost.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Wonder if they'll ever get to the bottom of it

Russian effect on social media changed minds, I think it's pretty safe to say. But how did that get translated into such a profound effect in rural, white counties in three states? Purely thinly veiled racism from the candidate? Has anyone studied miscounts in local districts, or gatekeepers, those reporting tallies? Seems to me that would be the easiest way to rig an election because it would involve few, but significant to the outcome, people. I'm not pointing fingers, just hypothesizing. After all everyone has a theory.

[ancianita]

4. I've wondered the same things myself. Guess we'll

just have to see and GOTV. My theory is that the Koch’s think they’ve got this at state levels.