405: Harri Hursti | The Cyber War on America's Elections
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Harri Hursti (@HarriHursti) is an ethical hacker and researcher, co-founder of Nordic Innovation Labs, and has been featured in the HBO documentaries Hacking Democracy and Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections.
What We Discuss with Harri Hursti:- Who's trying to hack our elections and why.
- Why all Americans lose if we allow enemies of the state to tamper with our election results -- even if our "side" emerges victorious this time around.
- Why electronic voting machines are more vulnerable to fraudulent manipulation than mail-in ballots and other forms of voting that leave an auditable paper trail.
- What we know about hacking strategies that have worked on other countries -- because every single NATO country has had Russian interference in their election.
- How fostering the public's eroding trust in our election system is the ultimate goal of our enemies.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:02.6 | When you're examining any kind of device, whether it's an ATM, whether it's a life support system or voting machine, |
| 0:09.2 | you always find vulnerabilities. |
| 0:10.9 | But how safe you are is how the company reacts. |
| 0:14.2 | If the company says, oh my God, help us. |
| 0:17.0 | Let us fix this problem. |
| 0:18.7 | Now you know this is in a good hands. |
| 0:21.2 | If the company goes, we are going to sue you and try to stop this message. |
| 0:24.6 | Now you know nothing gets fixed. |
| 0:26.2 | And the culture is the one which is causing all the trouble because you are not trying to fix the problem. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:38.9 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating people. |
| 0:44.4 | If you're new to the show, we have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their game. |
| 0:48.8 | Astronauts and entrepreneurs, spies and psychologists, even the occasional four-star general, |
| 0:53.9 | each show turns our guests wisdom into practical advice that you can use to build deeper understanding of how the world works |
| 1:00.3 | and become a better critical thinker. |
| 1:02.3 | Today's guest is an amazing hacker that you've probably never heard of. |
| 1:05.6 | This guy's a genius and we're lucky he's on our side. |
| 1:08.0 | He memorized all the country flags at age three and by age 12, he was programming mainframe computers. |
| 1:14.0 | How many flags do you know? Think about it. That's what I thought. |
| 1:16.7 | Today we're talking about election security. |
| 1:19.5 | Voting is important. We need regular and peaceful transfer of power or we get discontent and revolutions instead. |
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