“Amid a swirl of misinformation and disinformation about elections, CISA seems to be trying to walk a line between not alarming the public and stressing the need for election officials to take action,” the Associated Press reports.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), expected to release an official report on a Friday (June 4) when bad news is generally released in Washington, leaked the report to AP the prior Monday (May 31). In the news cycle, Mondays are considered the best day to generate positive attention and to alert the public and prod action from state election officials.
“The advisory is based on testing by a prominent computer scientist and expert witness in a long-running lawsuit that is unrelated to false allegations of a stolen election pushed by former President Donald Trump after his 2020 election loss,” according to AP.
“Amid a swirl of misinformation and disinformation about elections, CISA seems to be trying to walk a line between not alarming the public and stressing the need for election officials to take action,” AP says.
The CISA alert “seems to suggest states aren’t doing enough. It urges prompt mitigation measures, including both continued and enhanced ‘defensive measures to reduce the risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities.’ Those measures need to be applied ahead of every election, the advisory says, and it’s clear that’s not happening in all of the states that use the machines,” according to the AP report. (Emphasis added)
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1. Midterm-elections-technology-georgia-election-2020
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1. Why did CISA leadership plan to release the report on a Friday, the traditional day for bureaucracies in Washington to release bad news to minimize public attention?
2. Was the leak from CISA on the previous Monday done by a dissident in the agency, to ensure that the public and authorities got the message?
3. Was the leak done officially or was it an individual’s unofficial action?
4. Other than to hide bad news on a Friday, why would CISA leaders not have released the report as soon as it was finished, rather than to wait five days with it sitting on the shelf?
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