Hackers are coming for the 2020 election — and we’re not ready
the Democratic Party, spreading disinformation on social media, and compromising confidential voter data, it had proved to the rest of the world it was possible to successfully interfere in a U.S. election and come away largely unscathed.
We can’t say we weren’t warned. European allies raised the alarm for years about Russian aggression and cyberattacks in Estonia and Ukraine on internet infrastructure, election-reporting systems, and the power grid. In the spring of 2015, a panel of experts testified before Congress about “Confronting Russia’s Weaponization of Information.
Nearly every expert agrees on this: The worst-case scenario, the one we need to prepare for, is a situation that causes Americans to question the bedrock of our democracy — free and fair elections. If such a catastrophe occurred and the integrity of a national election came into doubt, Michael Daniel, the former cybersecurity coordinator in the Obama White House who now runs the Cyber Threat Alliance, isn’t sure the country would ever be the same. “How do we deal with that?” he asks.
The 2016 election flipped that logic on its head. The possible compromise of a few counties in a razor-thin race was enough to create doubt, if not inflict real damage, on voters’ perception of the election — and in the age of social media and the instantaneous flow of information, perception was reality.
Local election officials like Kammi Foote find themselves thrust into a global battle without borders, clear enemies, or rules of engagement, a daily struggle to protect the integrity of elections and to reassure Americans their democracy is safe. Foote’s relationship with the feds has dramatically improved since the FBI first called in late 2016. Inyo County is now part of an information-sharing network backed by DHS that pushes out technical alerts.
Only it didn’t work. By the time the list of social media accounts was released, most of the accounts were inactive. Acting on a tip from the FBI a few days before the election, Facebook had investigated and removed the suspicious accounts. Yet in the ways they’ve chosen to police their platforms, the tech companies have left plenty of openings for disinformation to spread. In Facebook’s case, Gleicher says the company has chosen to root out bad actors — whether they’re Russian trolls, e-criminals from Iran, or clickbait profiteers here in the U.S. — not by the content they post but the behavior of the people running the accounts.
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