Tech’s Outsized Role in the 2024 Election 8/12/24
TechCheck
CNBC
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🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The 2024 presidential election is heating up and Tech is looking to play an |
| 0:06.0 | outside role as former President Trump and Vice President Harris battle for the |
| 0:09.9 | White House. Tech checks Giorger Bosa has the latest on where that money's all coming from, D. |
| 0:15.8 | David, good morning. |
| 0:17.2 | That's right. |
| 0:18.2 | Over the weekend, each campaign dealing with tech in very different ways, really |
| 0:20.7 | reinforcing just how central it is and will be in this election. |
| 0:24.0 | First of all we have the Trump campaign saying that it was hacked citing a Microsoft |
| 0:28.0 | report that in turn pointed to increased activity from Iranian groups in recent |
| 0:32.1 | months. Now this wasn't a particularly |
| 0:34.0 | sophisticated attack from what we know. It stemmed from a compromised email |
| 0:38.1 | account belonging to a former advisor to a US presidential campaign, |
| 0:41.7 | fishing that relies on someone simply clicking |
| 0:44.2 | something in an email and it is one of the most common forms of cyber attacks that |
| 0:48.5 | AI for all of its promises does not eliminate. Experts say that this could just be the start of more complex cyber operations and a throwback |
| 0:56.6 | to the 2016 playbook. |
| 0:58.1 | Remember when Russian affiliated groups use fishing attacks to gain access to emails and then leaked them to basically |
| 1:03.8 | stir up division influence coverage. |
| 1:06.2 | The second story over the weekend guys that was Kamala Harris back in San Francisco |
| 1:10.0 | for a fundraiser. |
| 1:11.6 | This was really a return to her roots. |
| 1:13.4 | S.F is where she came up, where she has lots of friends in support. |
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