Any chance of having the machines get hacked?

[Binders Keepers]

Last presidential election we heard about the threat of hacking the machines to flip the vote totals, and Anonymous assured us they were all over it--monitoring ORCA, Karl Rove's GOTV ubercomputer. They were as good as their word, as they set up a firewall that thwarted 103 attempts by Republican operatives that night to break into the Ohio machines. (Writing this from memory, but this is the account I remember hearing.)

I've seen nothing this year on a similar threat. Has Anonymous or someone else set up a firewall, just in case?

[jberryhill]

1. Ummm...

http://www.salon.com/2012/11/20/did_anonymous_stop_rove_stealing_the_election/

...so I guess it will work this time too

[Koinos]

2. "Anonymous Issues Warning to Russian Hackers Targeting US Election"

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017408972

[Binders Keepers]

3. Thanks for that link!

Thanks, good to know they're on the job. Always better, though, not to let your opponent know you're on to them. Better still would be unhackable paper ballots.

[Heeeeers Johnny]

4. Putin must be pissing his pants...

with laughter.

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[Koinos]

5. I don't have any confidence in Anonymous, although they may claim credit for what doesn't happen.

It's more likely that US counterintelligence will intervene, although I don't have a whole lot of confidence in them either.

It is most likely that Russia does not want to risk a cyberwar with the US, especially over Trump.