Hack the vote: terrifying film shows how vulnerable US elections are

In the documentary Kill Chain, the weaknesses of America's basic election infrastructure are laid bare

Even as much of America grinds to a halt, coronavirus has yet to derail the date of the 2020 election. Which introduces a perhaps underestimated terror, as explained in one of the more deceptively scary documentaries to drop in recent weeks: the vulnerable voting machine. That seemingly benign piece of equipment - the hardware of American democracy - is, as several experts explain in HBO's Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections, nothing more than an obsolete computer. And these machines' vulnerabilities to hacking are "terrifying", Sarah Teale, co-director along with Simon Ardizzone and Russell Michaels, told the Guardian. America's current election infrastructure is, as Kill Chain explains, a prescription for disaster - an outdated, willfully naive system no more prepared for attack than four years ago.

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