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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAny chance of having the machines get hacked?
Last presidential election we heard about the threat of hacking the machines to flip the vote totals, and Anonymous assured us they were all over it--monitoring ORCA, Karl Rove's GOTV ubercomputer. They were as good as their word, as they set up a firewall that thwarted 103 attempts by Republican operatives that night to break into the Ohio machines. (Writing this from memory, but this is the account I remember hearing.)
I've seen nothing this year on a similar threat. Has Anonymous or someone else set up a firewall, just in case?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)http://www.salon.com/2012/11/20/did_anonymous_stop_rove_stealing_the_election/
...so I guess it will work this time too
Koinos
(2,792 posts)Binders Keepers
(369 posts)Thanks, good to know they're on the job. Always better, though, not to let your opponent know you're on to them. Better still would be unhackable paper ballots.
Heeeeers Johnny
(423 posts)with laughter.
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Koinos
(2,792 posts)It's more likely that US counterintelligence will intervene, although I don't have a whole lot of confidence in them either.
It is most likely that Russia does not want to risk a cyberwar with the US, especially over Trump.