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posted by martyb on Friday July 26 2019, @11:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-looking? dept.

Russian hackers probed election systems in all 50 states, a new Senate report confirmed Thursday.

The report comes one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller told Congress that the Russian government is working to meddle in U.S. elections "as we sit here."

"It wasn't a single attempt," Mueller said Wednesday of Russia's 2016 election interference. "They're doing it as we sit here. And they expect to do it during the next campaign."

The bipartisan report by the Senate Intelligence Committee released Thursday confirmed previous comments by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that Russian hackers scanned election systems in all 50 states ahead of the 2016 presidential election. DHS initially acknowledged Russian attempts to hack into election systems in just 21 states.

Russia targeted all 50 states in 2016 election hacking campaign, Senate report confirms


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Gaaark on Saturday July 27 2019, @03:07AM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday July 27 2019, @03:07AM (#871735) Journal

    Man, i'd like to shake your hand. This is probably the best post i've ever read from you: insightful, impactful: SPOT ON!

    They use systems which are prone to hacking and are surprised they're hacked.
    They meddle in other countries and are surprised by other countries meddling.
    They use a shitty operating system and are surprised it's shitty.

    http://www.gifbin.com/983043 [gifbin.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @07:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @07:01PM (#872055)

    I can't believe the corny ass companies they have working on these things. Diebold? Random technical services companies?
    Microsoft has recently open sourced a voting system I'll be really happy if some people pour over that fucker and get it nice. I'm still not sold on electronic voting though.