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Rolling Stone, March 7, 2020
Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections
If you weren’t already anxious about the 2020 election, the new HBO documentary highlights just how serious – and real – the threat of hacking is. Voters’ fears are often quelled by the idea that voting machines are not connected to the internet. But after only 30 seconds into the trailer, this is proved incorrect. Votes don’t have to be changed in order for an election to be hacked, either; the clip shows how hackers can alter a digit in a voter’s address in order to render his or her ballot invalid. We’re left not with hope, but a discouraging interview from an anonymous hacker: “I had full access,” he says. “I could have changed any vote.” (March 26th)