Really good article in the New York Times about how campaign finance law makes it nearly impossible to secure campaigns. This is a narrow area where you really want companies to give be able to give special treatment and freebies to political campaigns.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/technology/ftc-rules-cyberattacks.html …
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In particular, we need safe harbor provisions and carve-outs in campaign finance law so that Gmail, Facebook, Microsoft Exchange and so on can set up special protections for campaign and campaign-adjacent personal accounts, including 24/7 hotline staff (hey, a guy can dream)
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The way things work right now, the nightmare scenario for Google's Advanced Protection Program, worse than every campaign in the country getting hacked, was if I had passed the sample devices they gave me to a campaign. They made me swear in blood. That's a misaligned incentive
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The fact that the Senate leader is refusing to consider any kind of campaign or election security laws, the kind of laws that would have passed 100-0 in an earlier political climate, is a national emergency. Now it has to go stand in line with all the other national emergencies
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