The litany of confusion and missteps by Georgia’s state election officials took a bizarre turn this weekend when someone discovered a massive flaw in the state’s online voter registration system and instead of addressing the vulnerability, Secretary of State Brian Kemp — also the Republican gubernatorial candidate — accused Democrats of [Keep reading]
It’s easy to overlook, but perhaps the prime election hacking opportunity might also be the easiest – skip the James-Bond-esque vote-flipping efforts, and just hack a secretary of state’s website to cause confusion. “We know that the Russians have hacked websites that announce election results in the past,” said [Keep reading]
We know every vote counts, but will your vote actually be counted? Or will it be hacked? I’ve spent the last several months reporting on election hacking for my podcast Breach, and I’ve learned a lot: Mostly that vote “hacking” is a much broader problem than people realize. While lots [Keep reading]
Once you leave the polling place, an intricate dance of technology takes place. Perhaps the machine you used creates a local tally and prints out an end-of-day receipt, which is later added to tallies from other machines in that precinct, in that county, and that state. The counts themselves must [Keep reading]
The worst mistake you can make is not voting. The second-worst is … accidentally voting for the wrong person. So read those voters pamphlets, and news stories about HOW you’ll be voting, and be prepared! Still, there are other ways your vote can be screwed with on election day. For [Keep reading]
Step 2: Voter registration Let’s say you press on past digital propaganda and decide you are going to vote. You register. That data has to live somewhere. And it has to remain accurate. If a group wanted to engage in voter suppression, they could hack state registration databases and remove [Keep reading]
Yes, every vote counts. But will your vote be properly counted next week? Or will hackers mess with our election (again?)? Also, voting seems so simple; Bush or Gore, yes or no…why is it so hard to get this right? These are essential questions, central questions at the heart of [Keep reading]
Today, we’ll begin with Step 1: Long before you step into the voting both, your vote can be hacked. It’s already happened. I’ve written about state-sponsored trolling before, and I think it might be the greatest threat to democracy, and maybe even intelligence itself. Here’s a partial transcript from this part [Keep reading]
Twitter alerted an undetermined number of users on Thursday that it had inadvertently — but temporarily — revealed their location data, even though they had directly requested that such information be deleted. I know because I was one of those users. I received the above notice as a pop-up at [Keep reading]
You’ve been hacked, and now you have a mess to clean up. Maybe an imposter rampaged through your bank accounts, so you have to make dozens of calls. Maybe you have to play email tag with huge firms like Facebook or Google to reclaim your accounts. You probably have to [Keep reading]
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