Questioning Election Security
summary
Defines "election related" as requiring a plausible operational link rather than any tangential political tie; distinguishes hacking (credential-stealing phishing) from coordinated inauthentic influence (take-down of 50,000 channels), and shows attribution by linking infrastructure — e.g., phishing campaigns against campaigns attribute to Iran and China while one high-profile credential scam turns out to be a 19-year-old McDonald's worker, not APT28. Platforms must notify targets, be ready to go public, and only announce claims they can stand behind.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to speaker
- 1:13The election security circus
- 1:51Defining election threats
- 3:20Politics vs. disinformation
- 4:28Beyond Russian interference
- 6:08Caution in attribution
- 8:18Handling threat disclosures
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