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22 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Be aware of the "perception hack:" an intrusion that is "intended to leave the impression that foreign powers have greater access to the voting system than they really do."
@julianbarnes @SangerNYT @nicoleperlroth 1/
As described here, these aren't terribly sophisticated or likely disruptive attacks but they are the the "mess with our heads" aspect of information warfare.


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It may be the penetration is not solely of state and local election systems but may include other critical infrastructure, such as an electrical grid. This is "voting infrastructure" and the intell community had warned of this in 11/09 as described:

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Add: From that 11/09 Intel warning, this stood out --

"Adversaries may try to accomplish their goals (by) conducting disruptive or destructive cyberattacks on state and local infrastructure" -- and is NOT focused solely on election or electoral machines.

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