American elections are safe from hacking due to the isolated nature of voting systems, but that could soon change due to the threat posed by growing centralization and interconnectivity of infrastructure, cybersecurity firm Flashpoint said on Monday.
“The U.S. election landscape is made up of approximately 9,000 different state and local jurisdictions, providing a patchwork of laws, standards, processes, and voting machines,” Ian Gray, an intelligence analyst for the firm, noted in a blog post. “This environment is a formidable challenge to any actor, nation-state or not, who seeks to substantially influence or alter the outcome of an election.”
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