"Jacob, tell me who these actors are and what they're finding."
"This is a very paranoid scene here, Allie. We're among some of the greatest hacking minds in the country. People who have been brought together by above board companies to try to be as creative as they can and as insidious as they can in attacking systems like you see behind me. These are some of the most common systems used as of 2018 in elections, and so they're here to really test this stuff out."
"[Audio silence] ... vulnerability that they discovered."
"The possibility is all too real." |
"Jake, cybersecurity companies, companies that are involved in this, banking, they spend billions of dollars on cybersecurity. Are the kinds of resources necessary to protect voting systems available to election officials in this country?"
"Well this is what's so alarming about being here is that you see teams literally have hundreds of hackers in the employ of companies like IBM, to be a sort of thinktank, a skunkworks for discovering the latest trends in hacking. Well, an election official barely has the money for a single IT consultant much less anybody coming in to try to imagine what could go wrong if we went at these guys. So for me the gap here between the billions being spent on cybersecurity across the country by private actors and the fact they had to buy this equipment on eBay just to test it out, I think that tells you everything you need to know."
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Just over a year ago, MSNBC were alarmed at how insecure Dominion voting machines were. They were also alarmed at how uncooperative Dominion were with efforts to test the security of their machines.
So what changed between then and now? 🤔
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