“It’s really reconnaissance by a bad guy to try and figure out how we would break into your computer,” said Trevor Timmons, a spokesman for the Colorado secretary of state’s office. “It’s not an attack. I wouldn’t call it a probe. It’s not a breach, it’s not a penetration.”
The Wisconsin Election Commission, for example, said the state’s systems were targeted by “Russian government cyber actors.” Alaska Elections Division Director Josie Bahnke said computers in Russia were scanning election systems looking for vulnerabilities.
Being targeted does not mean that sensitive voter data was manipulated or results were changed. A hacker targeting a system without getting inside is similar to a burglar (or police officer?) circling a house checking for unlocked doors and windows.
Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it.
The Trump administration announced Thursday that it would eliminate dozens of paperwork requirements for federal agencies, including an obscure rule that requires them to continue providing updates on their preparedness for a bug that afflicted some computers at the turn of the century.
Plus a lot of Western countries usePeople also use "a lot of Western countries" in their examples for why this country can have universal health care or free universities. But the US is too big for that to work.
People also use "a lot of Western countries" in their examples for why this country can have universal health care or free universities.I have no problem with these ideas, per se, but the former will end up being used as more gibs for votes and the latter to subsidize SJW bullshit. Not really comparable to advocating having a voting system that can't be easily fucked with. A good example is the GOP pushing voter ID laws, countries like Australia ask people for their ID prior to voting, no reason states here in the USA couldn't do the same.