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Why are almost all official documents about Russian government-sponsored hackers "secret" or "top secret"?
by paralelogram 9y ago
Why are almost all official documents about Russian government-sponsored hackers "secret" or "top secret"?
- RickS 9y agoCounter question: why wouldn't they be? Either their methods work, and of course they should be secret, or their methods don't work, and it's unproductive to help them shorten the list of attack methods they try.
- cmiles74 9y agoIn this case, my guess would be fear that people would start distrusting these voting machines and, eventually, the election as a whole. Elections only work when everyone agrees the results are fair. That said, I think that's an important story here. The infrastructure around these machines seems sloppy. The fact that there's no source code to read means they are black boxes we have to trust.