The Presidential Election : Does Hacked Equal Rigged ? - Shelly Palmer
▻http://www.shellypalmer.com/2016/10/the-presidential-election-does-hacked-equal-rigged
L’optimiste s’exprime mais il ne voit pas que la manipulation des élections aux États Unis fonctionne indépendamment de la question si le vote électronique est hacké. Il suffit de penser aux manipulations des listes électorales pour identifier un problème nettement plus significatif.
“Physical security models do not work for networked systems and a new mental model is required to make intelligent trade-offs between efficiency and resilience.” Sullivan’s words are not comforting.
Was this just a test? Is there a bigger, more disruptive DDoS attack planned for Election Day? How would that impact our ability to vote or count votes?
A direct technical attack is not the only type of hack. What about social engineering? It is usually the lowest-tech, highest-efficacy type of attack. Could there be a massive social engineering hack on, or near, Election Day?
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The thousands of very well-distributed, mostly old-fashioned, partisan-monitored, local election polling places that make up our national election system are on full alert, and it is more than capable of defending our democracy on November 8th. So please, go out and vote with confidence. America needs you.
On lit souvent que notre ećrivan-journaliste national Kurt Tucholsky aurait dit que les élections seraient illégales si elles pouvaient changer quoi que ce soit. C’est faux. D’après les dernières enquêtes c’est une phrase de sa contemporaine Emma Goldman. L’idée est donc le résultat de l’observation de la politique étatsunienne.
▻https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diskussion:Kurt_Tucholsky
Besagtes Zitat stammt vermutlich eher hierher: "If voting changed anything they would make it illegal." - Emma Goldman