The Secretary of State of Georgia made public today that the voting systems of that state were subject to cyber attack ten times in the last year. In each instance, the attack was traced back to the Department of Homeland Security. The cyber attacks attempted to penetrate voter information and registration data and other similarly sensitive information. The Georgia authorities contacted DHS, but they kept getting differing explanations as to what had happened. Now the state is going public.
Think about this. For the last week or two we have been watching many in the mainstream media and among the Democrats melt down because of a supposed hack by the Russians involving the election. None of the Russian efforts centered on the actual process of voting or counting the votes; the allege Russian efforts focused on making public what Democrats were doing and saying in private. The ten attempted hacks on the Georgia systems are much more serious. These attempted hacks involve attempts to penetrate the actual voting systems and counting of ballots. The more serious attempts to hack the election came from the Department of Homeland Security and they are getting essentially no attention from the media or the Democrats. Why are there no calls to investigate these attempted hacks?
If you ever needed complete proof that the point of the uproar over supposed Russian hacks is political rather than concern over the validity of the election, the differing responses to these two sets of events provides it.
Think about this. For the last week or two we have been watching many in the mainstream media and among the Democrats melt down because of a supposed hack by the Russians involving the election. None of the Russian efforts centered on the actual process of voting or counting the votes; the allege Russian efforts focused on making public what Democrats were doing and saying in private. The ten attempted hacks on the Georgia systems are much more serious. These attempted hacks involve attempts to penetrate the actual voting systems and counting of ballots. The more serious attempts to hack the election came from the Department of Homeland Security and they are getting essentially no attention from the media or the Democrats. Why are there no calls to investigate these attempted hacks?
If you ever needed complete proof that the point of the uproar over supposed Russian hacks is political rather than concern over the validity of the election, the differing responses to these two sets of events provides it.
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