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Securing democracy: the cybersecurity of digital voting in the US election
Posted By Zoe Hawkins on September 15, 2016 @ 14:30
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[1] uncovered: https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-says-foreign-hackers-penetrated-000000175.html
[2] targeted: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/29/politics/hackers-breach-illinois-arizona-election-systems/
[3] held: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-14/group-with-ties-to-russia-hacks-democratic-national-committee-get-trump-files
[4] published: http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/22/12259258/wikileaks-leaked-democratic-national-committee-emails-personal-information
[5] released: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/hackers-just-released-what-appears-be-dncs-trump-opposition-research-file
[6] act of kompromat: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/world/europe/dnc-hack-russia.html?_r=0
[7] isn’t particularly ground breaking: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/voting-records-get-hacked-a-lot-and-you-can-just-buy-them-anyway
[8] NationBuilder.com: http://nationbuilder.com
[9] VoterRecords.com: https://voterrecords.com
[10] breach: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/dccc-cyber-attack-russia/493634/
[11] further DNC document dump: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/295746-guccifer-20-dumps-more-dnc-documents
[12] move to modernise: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/30/could-hackers-tip-an-american-election-you-bet/
[13] laments: http://icitech.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ICIT-Analysis-Hacking-Elections-is-Easy-Part-One1.pdf
[14] successfully installing: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14825465/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/princeton-prof-hacks-e-vote-machine/#.V8vlr3iev6k
[15] taking only minutes to demonstrate: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-elections-russia-hack-how-to-hack-an-election-in-seven-minutes-214144
[16] demonstrated: http://www.inquisitr.com/3418067/its-easy-to-hack-voting-machines/
[17] network connections: https://theconversation.com/how-vulnerable-to-hacking-is-the-us-election-cyber-infrastructure-63241
[18] targeted disenfranchisement: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/02/election-landslide-hackers-vs-state-voter-systems.html
[19] maintains: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/08/15/readout-secretary-johnsons-call-state-election-officials-cybersecurity
[20] offered: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN10R1QN
[21] painted: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/election-cyber-security-georgia-227475
[22] declined the offer: http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2016/08/some-swing-states-decline-dhs-voting-security-offer/131037/http:/www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2016/08/some-swing-states-decline-dhs-voting-security-offer/131037/
[23] decentralised nature: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/08/politics/jeh-johnson-james-comey-election-cyberintrusion/
[24] 75% of votes: http://www.smh.com.au/world/could-hackers-tip-an-american-election-you-bet-20160831-gr62eg.html
[25] public conviction: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/08/04/donald-trumps-dangerous-talk-rigged-election.html
[26] advocates: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2016/08/03/election-security-as-a-national-security-issue/
[27] possibility of e-voting: http://www.cio.com.au/article/602880/e-voting-under-review-federal-election-results-loom/