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Consider the digitization of voting machines, equipment that dates back centuries. electronic voting machines has enabled the availability of fully digital voting and near-real-time results. But events at this summer's annual Computer Security Conference Email Lists Database illustrate the risks that come with these benefits. As part of the conference, software engineers were invited to the Voting Machine Hacking Village to try to break into commercial voting machines. Hackers breached the security system in less than two hours. The breaches were so alarming that national security expert and former U.S. ambassador to NATO Douglas Luter said in the foreword to the 2016 report that the loss of life and property was tragic, but the loss of confidence in the security of the voting process by the American people and government.
The underlying connection may be even more damaging. Voting machine vulnerabilities are just one risk in digital democracy. Authoritarian states such as Russia and North Korea are actively engaging in systematic dirty tricks to hack electoral rolls, spread divisive propaganda, and use social media to influence and cast doubt on elections across the democratic world. What’s more, the systemic degradation of press freedom is in full swing. Powers of all kinds, foes and friends alike, are using digital tools to lay siege to the Fourth Estate (and the Fifth Estate), which Thomas Jefferson believed to be a critical check on abuses of power.
Consider the digitization of voting machines, equipment that dates back centuries. electronic voting machines has enabled the availability of fully digital voting and near-real-time results. But events at this summer's annual Computer Security Conference Email Lists Database illustrate the risks that come with these benefits. As part of the conference, software engineers were invited to the Voting Machine Hacking Village to try to break into commercial voting machines. Hackers breached the security system in less than two hours. The breaches were so alarming that national security expert and former U.S. ambassador to NATO Douglas Luter said in the foreword to the 2016 report that the loss of life and property was tragic, but the loss of confidence in the security of the voting process by the American people and government.
The underlying connection may be even more damaging. Voting machine vulnerabilities are just one risk in digital democracy. Authoritarian states such as Russia and North Korea are actively engaging in systematic dirty tricks to hack electoral rolls, spread divisive propaganda, and use social media to influence and cast doubt on elections across the democratic world. What’s more, the systemic degradation of press freedom is in full swing. Powers of all kinds, foes and friends alike, are using digital tools to lay siege to the Fourth Estate (and the Fifth Estate), which Thomas Jefferson believed to be a critical check on abuses of power.