As they look to 2020, many election security officials and experts say the most worrying piece of the 2016 Russian interference was the hacking of state election systems https://nyti.ms/308DWrx pic.twitter.com/HQFnVDPg5a
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U.S. election defenses have improved since 2016. But as the 2020 primaries near, Russian hackers are growing more sophisticated than ever.https://nyti.ms/308OZRD
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In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election, there was an intense focus on America’s voting machines. But many machines remain vulnerable, both in their hardware and software. https://nyti.ms/308DWrx pic.twitter.com/mpSErtTHrR
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Russia has also proved adept at blending different types of digital malfeasance into one larger operation, stealing sensitive information, using trolls to bait outrage, and then building an echo chamber to widen its effect. https://nyti.ms/308DWrx pic.twitter.com/zMyGuIpg04
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With Americans so mistrustful of one another, and of the political process, the fear of hacking could be as dangerous as an actual cyberattack https://nyti.ms/308DWrx pic.twitter.com/WOOlYje24g
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The Russians were sloppy in 2016 but they caught Americans off guard. Now hackers and trolls are working far harder to cover their tracks. They are, as one American intelligence official put it, “refreshing” their operations. Read more here:https://nyti.ms/308DWrx
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So Stealthy only the NYT can point them out to you. Subscribe and stay tuned...
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Try reading - the NSA and British Intelligence are reporting it.
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This is why they need paper ballots available in every voting station and acts that actually ensure the protection of voting
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Hand-marked paper ballots definitely needed, but disinformation campaigns lead to people voting for candidates they probably otherwise wouldn't. Voter disenfranchisement also a big and growing domestic vulnerability to our democracy.
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New York Times trolling and McCarthyism has defiantly grown more sophisticated than ever.
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