Hillary Clinton concerned about Russia tampering in U.S. elections

[riversedge]

Source: cbs




By Rebecca Shabad CBS News September 6, 2016, 8:43 AM






Hillary Clinton said Monday that she’s “really concerned” about Russia meddling in U.S. elections following the hacking attacks at the Democratic National Committee and other groups this summer.

“I’m really concerned about the credible reports about Russian government interference in our elections,” she told reporters aboard her new campaign plane.

The Democratic presidential nominee said that the fact that U.S. intelligence officials are looking into Russia’s role so far in hacking attacks “raises some grave questions about potential Russian interference with our electoral process.”

Clinton added that the U.S. must take threats from Russia, North Korea, Iran and China seriously.

“We are going to have to take those threats and those attacks seriously,” said Clinton, who has said that cyberattacks should be treated like any other attack on the U.S. and warrants a robust response.............................

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-concerned-about-russia-tampering-in-u-s-elections/

[saidsimplesimon]

1. K&R

Not for Mrs. Clinton's "concern", for all the elections in jeopardy because state officials have no understanding of the software and hardware they purchase.

A blast from the past for entertainment. Diebold, anyone remember the "conspiracy theorists" who warned US of the possibilities?

http://www.salon.com/2011/09/27/votinghack/

Many thanks to the "White Hats" who gave US the warning.

[HassleCat]

2. Now that the horse is put of the barn, yes.

We decided to approve electronic voting years ago. The machines can be programmed to give an unfair advantage to one candidate over another, without leaving a trace. Are they vulnerable to tampering by foreign hackers? Probably. The companies that make and program the machines probably have a "back door" way to access the machines remotely. If they can do it, so can hackers. The correct thing to do would be to go back to paper ballots.

[Blue_Tires]

3. This Russian story has legs

Which is why naturally Glenn Greenwald released yet another Hillary smear column today...

But I'm officially not allowed to point out the coincidences of these two events on this forum

[bettyellen]

4. and suddenly "radicals" are not concerned about the election getting hacked- those assholes are

huge hypocrites. I knew it when they jumped on the "election is fixed" bandwagon when paying no attention it was happening to the poor and POC for many years. Late to the party, kids.