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pnwmom

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Wed Jul 19, 2017, 01:45 AM Jul 2017

Clinton, Romney campaign chiefs team up to protect elections from cyberattacks

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)The managers of Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney's presidential campaigns are teaming up to protect American elections from cyberattacks.

Robby Mook, Clinton's 2016 campaign manager, and Matt Rhoades, Romney's 2012 campaign chief, will co-lead the Defending Digital Democracy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Harvard Kennedy School announced on Tuesday.

The initiative will focus on developing "concrete solutions" to address the threat of hacks on political organizations and election infrastructure. It will seek to develop and share best strategies with organizations involved in the electoral sphere. The announcement marks the first major effort to explicitly organize regarding the growing concern over election-related cybersecurity threats.

"Cyberattacks on campaigns and elections are a threat to our democracy and affect people of all political stripes," Rhoades said in a statement, adding that, "Foreign actors could target any political party at any time, and that means we all need to work together to address these vulnerabilities."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/18/politics/clinton-romney-managers-election-initiative/index.html?sr=twCNN071817clinton-romney-managers-election-initiative0803PMVODtop

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Clinton, Romney campaign chiefs team up to protect elections from cyberattacks (Original Post) pnwmom Jul 2017 OP
So they're doing the opposite of tRump in other words SHRED Jul 2017 #1
Thank God somebody is Hekate Jul 2017 #2
+1000 pnwmom Jul 2017 #4
Love it! iluvtennis Jul 2017 #3
tweet from the salmon one in 3... 2... 1... truthisfreedom Jul 2017 #5
Please don't insult fish! pnwmom Jul 2017 #6
paper ballots hand counted at the precinct level, no tech connected to the internet at all nt msongs Jul 2017 #7
Agreed. pnwmom Jul 2017 #8
Exactly! FakeNoose Jul 2017 #10
All the way paper. oasis Jul 2017 #11
4 sure bluestarone Jul 2017 #12
Wow, that's bi...bipedal? Uh, bipolar? Buy parmesan? Doug the Dem Jul 2017 #9
Interesting combination... Hugin Jul 2017 #13
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