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Silicon Valley is seriously worried about a cyber attack on Election Day

posted onNovember 1, 2016
by l33tdawg

Imagine a major attack against the Internet on Election Day with a singular goal: disrupt voter turnout.

It sounds like pure paranoia, but that's the gist of a debate that started on Twitter this weekend and quickly drew in some big names in Silicon Valley.

Adam D'Angelo, Facebook's (FB, Tech30) former chief technology officer and founder of Quora, tweeted on Sunday he believes there's a "good chance of major internet attack Nov 8th." "Many groups have the ability and incentive. Maps outage alone could easily skew the election," D'Angelo wrote. Put another way: If an organized group could somehow take down a service like Google Maps though a brute-force attack or security hole, perhaps it would prevent some voters from finding their voting locations.

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