The journal of a plague year; threats of election dysfunction
BOSTON GLOBE
March 19, 2020
by Peter Keough
Chain of fools
While you ride out the COVID-19 pandemic, don’t forget the potential threats to our democracy coming up in the November elections. Simon Ardizzone, Russell Michaels, and Sarah Teale’s documentary “Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections” assesses the situation. It is not reassuring.
The film’s guide to the glaring vulnerabilities in our election security is Finnish hacker and cybersecurity expert Harri Hursti. In 2005 Hursti demonstrated how easy it was to hack into a Florida voting machine. Despite this warning, machines like it are still being used in several states. Here he resumes his investigations, uncovering other alarming lapses.