I believe the Equifax administrator never changed the default login from 'Admin', nor did they do basic software updates to keep up with the latest security vulnerabilities. That breach could have been prevented had IT staff stayed current with patch updates and practiced better IT security hygiene. Effective IT security applies many layers of security so if say a hacker does guess a user password, they still have limited restrictions on what they can do to the overall network. Unless a hacker gets root administrative access to an entire network, any nefarious activity should be minimized to a single exposed user and what permissions an admin has granted them. And once some shady activity is picked up by that user, it's usually immediately dinged and sent to the Administrator who can then shut down the account. Companies like VISA, Mastercard and American Express have truly some of the most impressive IT infrastructures I've seen and with good reason. They are the parties responsible for making sure your transactions go through when you buy something off Amazon or swipe your card at the grocery store. There's a reason their brand is visible on your debit/credit cards and it's because they're the security stopgap to make sure money transactions digitally go into the right people's hands. Hire some of the big brains from those companies to come up with a safe online voting process and I'm confident you could have secure online voting that everyone would feel comfortable with. One of my big hopes with the advent of quantum computing is quantum cryptography. If that ever becomes mainstream, it will go a long way to ensuring the integrity of packets of data without relying on huge prime numbers. Also should a quantum cryptic message ever get tampered with, thanks to a quirky law of nature with the uncertainty principle, detection of sniffed picked would show up the moment a hacker tampered with the data. Safe online voting can be done. It just would be an extremely expensive and laborious project to set up. To people trying to suppress voter turnout, that's probably a bad thing.
I’m in Iowa. The senate race was Ernst vs Greenfield. Ernst is a terrible grifter but all she has to do was say over and over Pelosi, AOC, and socialism. The coastal democrats need to learn that their rhetoric is hurting the party in the flyover states.
