“The security of the 2024 U.S. elections is one of the hottest topics on the floors of Black Hat and DEF CON this week,” Axios reports.
“Why it matters: With less than three months until Election Day, government officials and election security experts are eager to grow confidence in state and local governments’ ability to accurately and safely tally legitimate votes.
“Driving the news: The DEF CON Voting Village is running a simulated online election this week and asking hackers to try to break the system.”
Sources:
1. https://www.axios.com/election-security
2. U.S. seeing “increasing” number of threats to election
3. DEF CON® Hacking Conference
4. SIV HACKING CHALLENGE — Voting Village
1. What was the result of the hacking challenge?
2. Don’t government officials and election security experts seem more concerned with building public confidence in the U.S. election system with a somewhat denialist attitude, than actually challenging and combating possible vulnerabilities or threats?
3. Is it realistic to think that, according to the statements of the director of CISA, the threats facing the security of our electoral system are mainly disinformation, AI fake news and hacking of political campaigns?
4. Doesn’t that seem like a very limited and optimistic view of the threats?
5. How true is the statement, “The outcome of an election is unlikely to be swayed by a disruptive event in a single county”?
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