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The mainstream media assures us that foreign governments can’t hack the election, and downplays the risk of domestic threats to elections — the possibility that special interests could access voting machines and change votes.
Election integrity activists are at odds over whether raising too many concerns about the security of US elections did more harm than good.
Author and intel authority James Bamford tries to give an objective analysis of the Russiagate debate, and to put it in the context of the history and reality of intelligence gathering.
Election experts Jonathan Simon and Lynn Bernstein go deep into how America’s myriad of voting systems operate, and the reasons trust in them has cratered
Two distinguished legal scholars examine the state of election lawsuits, and why our elections today need so many lawyers.
A RAND report’s chilling predictions for the 2024 election — infrastructure hacks, AI disinfo, a lack of voting machine security — show the risks are worse than we thought.
E-poll books are used around the US to check in voters. Because they use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, they’re vulnerable to manipulation and malfunction.
Foreshadowing Global Corporate Grab; Facebook Ramping up Counterterrorism Strategy … and more picks.
The simple and quaint past way of voting is over. It’s a brave new world and the authors of the new WhoWhatWhy e-book help us understand it.
DEF CON attendees remind us just how easy it is to bypass laughable voting machine safeguards. At least they got the mainstream media to cover this issue for once.
It doesn’t take much skill to hack a voting machine.
Could Vladimir Putin’s hackers pick the next US president? We looked into the possibility a year ago and here is what we found.