Trump appointees asked federal cybersecurity agency to secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it

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News Source : Salon

News Summary

  • Trump has said voting is vulnerable even as his administration has undermined the agency supposed to protect it.
  • Current and former CISA employees and state officials describe an agency that has become significantly less equipped to help states fight cyber threats.
  • Some state authorities said they no longer trusted the administration enough to share information with CISA, a key to the agency’s success in past elections.
  • “They’ve violated the entire premise of that information-sharing relationship,” said one former high-ranking federal cybersecurity official.

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