<![CDATA[[SecurityRatty] tag: threatsto]]> http://securityratty.com/tag/threatsto Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:59:21 +0000 iRatty Engine http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Threats to the Democratic Process]]> http://securityratty.com/article/6ce12922b2f934ac43660aa445b99b09 http://securityratty.com/article/6ce12922b2f934ac43660aa445b99b09

Our readers might recall that this post by Tim Bass, The Top Ten Cybersecurity Threats for 2008.  One of the top ten threats to cybersecurity in 2008, according to this post, was:

    — Subversion of democratic political processes.

Interestingly enough, Electoral-Vote.com, a site maintained by Dr. Andrew Tanenbaum, Professor of Computer Science at the Vrige University in Amsterdam, reports (a link to a news story) that the US presidental election can be hacked.

This is not science fiction folks, it is simply the political and social realities of our brave new electronic world.

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