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Officials fear cybersecurity agency meant to protect US elections compromised by Trump

A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. The appointees wanted the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to procure the machine, examine it and report back the…

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Horror as Trump aides’ ‘mind boggling’ secret voting machine hack request revealedPolitical appointees in the Trump administration asked the federal agency that protects U.S. elections to secretly hack a voting machine, a request that raised alarms Monday after it came to light. According to a report from ProPublica, Homeland Security political appointees asked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency , or CISA, last year…

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