Will We Be Safe From Election Hacking in 2020?
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🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of the 2016 elections, Illinois' voter database was infiltrated by Russia's state-backed hackers. This week on Decrypted, Bloomberg Technology's Kartikay Mehrotra investigates what Illinois has done since to prepare for the next presidential election, and whether states and counties across the country are ready for 2020.
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| 0:30.4 | July 12 2016 started out as just another day for Matt Emmons. |
| 0:35.0 | At the time Matt was an IT technician with the Illinois Board of Elections |
| 0:39.0 | and just as everyone in the office was getting settled into the work day. |
| 0:43.0 | I think it was about 10 a.m. |
| 0:45.7 | One of his colleagues noticed something strange with the state's voter registration |
| 0:49.8 | system. |
| 0:50.8 | It essentially was at a dead stop. You couldn't do anything. |
| 0:55.0 | So Matt's colleague went about troubleshooting and found that the server |
| 1:00.0 | hosting the voter database was running on overdrive. |
| 1:04.0 | Something was jamming the system. |
| 1:07.0 | So he took a look at the requests coming in. |
| 1:10.0 | What's normally a trickle of orderly requests |
| 1:13.2 | It was like five times per second |
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