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PCIntern

(25,550 posts)
Mon Nov 21, 2016, 06:45 PM Nov 2016

It was an electoral "Fire Sale"

Like the fourth Die Hard film, cyberterrorists took over targets this time it was key voting districts' machines and changed the outcome of the election by using pinpoint hacking technology.

Don't think it's possible? In 2012 KKKarl was certain that Ohio waS going his way but was stymied by either counterterrorism or incompetence but they didn't make that mistake thus time. Oh no. They knew what they had to do and executed it with skill. This time there was no John McClane around to thwart them and we know that at least one intelligence agency wanted this outcome.

The question is: what to do now if anything?

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It was an electoral "Fire Sale" (Original Post) PCIntern Nov 2016 OP
So weird that this was a major concern for Democrats back in 2000, but somehow enough Nov 2016 #1

enough

(13,259 posts)
1. So weird that this was a major concern for Democrats back in 2000, but somehow
Mon Nov 21, 2016, 10:13 PM
Nov 2016

fell completely off the radar, so that by this year the idea of rigged elections was a Trump talking point.

I remember watching the people who studied vote-hacking become pariahs on DU many years ago. Never understood what what going on then, and I still don't.

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