DHS Cyber Office Wants to See Secret Voting Machine Vulnerability Report

Published Sep 28 2021 at 8:59 AM GMT

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BloombergA cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security has shown interest in seeing a copy of a report alleging 'severe' vulnerabilities in Georgia's voting machines'a report that a federal judge has decided to keep secret.
As The Daily Beast reported last month, US District Judge Amy Totenberg ordered the report'authored by a renowned computer security academic'to remain sealed.
Although the report only discusses the potential for future election interference, her restrictions appear to be driven by a desire to avoid fueling unfounded right-wing conspiracy theories that Donald Trump beat Joe Biden in 2020.
But now the Streisand effect is in full swing, as the report's secrecy is attracting even more attention from two camps: the federal agency tasked with helping protect elections and state election officials around the country who are also relying on these machines in certain jurisdictions.