Supposedly the Department of Homeland Security offers security training to Congressional campaigns who ask for it. Campaigns who write in are told they can sign up for a six-week phishing vulnerability assessment, or a network audit. The email that DHS sends has three attachments
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This is like writing to the FBI to say you are concerned about letter bombs, and getting a ticking package in return.
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A typical congressional campaign doesn't have any IT staff or a network to infiltrate, just a bunch of tired, caffeinated people who need to share documents all the time. They need training on how to do that, how to text, and how to secure password-protected personal accounts.
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If you work on such a campaign, or are a working journalist (facing many of the same threats), there are nerds in every city champing at the bit to help you. It takes about an hour for a person, two hours for a group. Hit me up and I will be delighted to matchmake—415 610 0231
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For the curious, here's what that training looks like. It's nothing you haven't heard, except possibly for the part about setting up security keys. It will offer you a lot of protection over the status quo. https://techsolidarity.org/resources/congressional_howto.html …
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The problem unfortunately is reaching campaigns, not finding people to do the training.
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If you could reach out to NYC-area Congressional campaigns of both parties (districts NY 1-17 and NJ 5-11), it would be a great help. I know a number of people there who would do trainings.
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