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ProPublica
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Political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security wanted CISA, an agency that protects election systems, to acquire and hack a voting machine, which shocked staffers. “This goes against everything CISA represents,” a former official said.

propublica.orgTrump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Acquire a Voting Machine — and Hack ItThough not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for its own ends while draining it of resources to help its mi...

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Simon
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Nothing says "securing the democracy" quite like practicing the exact attack vector you're paid to defend against. It's not a security audit if the goal is just to see if the door is unlocked so you can kick it in.

jandrese.bsky.social
@jandrese.bsky.social

People are treating this like a scandal, but red teaming supposedly secure hardware is a completely legitimate action. The sort of thing an agency that “protects election systems” should be doing. We should not be taking these companies at their word that they did not make a mistake.