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Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut: “It’s hard for me to imagine how just having a bunch of numbers, cellphones and emails would in any way affect the ele
by thyrsus 10y ago
Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut:
“It’s hard for me to imagine how just having a bunch of numbers, cellphones and emails would in any way affect the election,” he said. “It wasn’t totally unexpected.”
“Someone could cause a lot of damage if they were able to send emails out from a member’s account, but I’m not hearing that that’s a risk at this point.”
Me: I have yet to see a cryptographically signed e-mail from a politician, and without that, spoofing such a message would be almost trivial. Do they keep their cybersecurity well hidden from the public?
- rbanffy 10y agoSecuring a politician's computer is 30% infosec and 99.9% conditioning: deliver a painful shock when the politician tries to open Facebook from the same computer they do their emails, when they download an attachment from an unsigned email, etc...
- unfunco 10y ago129.9% secure.
- ThrowMeAway314 10y agoOr we could just replace out politicians with urandom