This is a very welcome development. The fact (cited in the article) that the effort will also target campaign-adjacent personal accounts, like the candidate's spouse and family, is particularly reassuring. This has been a blind spot in campaign security efforts in the past.https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1227253999709163520 …
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What campaign security efforts need more than anything is recurring, in-person training. I wrote this up at some length in a pair of blog posts last year: https://idlewords.com/2019/05/what_i_learned_trying_to_secure_congressional_campaigns.htm … https://idlewords.com/2019/08/who_should_secure_congressional_campaigns.htm …
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The only thing I can think of harder than securing campaigns is securing elections. They are the fascinating kind of real world problem that gets harder the more you study it, and has obvious trivial solutions if you don't know anything. Follow
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The other missing piece on campaign security is an up-front commitment from media to not serve as a conduit for targeted political leaks by intelligence agencies. Regrettably, the New York Times editor has said openly that he would cover a disinfo campaign like Wikileaks again.
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