German Defense is on high alert
Cyberterrorism has become an ever-growing problem in our increasingly digitized world. From a single computer, someone could theoretically ruin another individual’s life through finding out everything about them, planting a virus, and leaving without a trace.
This has extended to international elections where these blackhats have the capability to not only conduct successful propaganda campaigns, but also literally hack the voting machines and subsequently change the voting results in areas. Those that remain skeptical need only turn their attention to the hacker convention DEF CON in late July of this year, where these computer specialists were literally able to hack into U.S. voting machines in less than two hours.
Hackers testing the security of 30 voting machines at Defcon
“We got in within 35 minutes” pic.twitter.com/Zc9cKBXpD4#defcon #Defcon25 @defcon— Matthijs Pontier (@Matthijs85) July 29, 2017
As more evidence, like the Facebook ad story, is coming along that Russian hackers were responsible for influencing the opinion of many people in key purple districts during the 2016 presidential election, it seems that this has consequently given a bright idea to members of the alt-right in the United States to do the same thing elsewhere. After all, if such tactics were able to help get their candidate Donald Trump elected, could not the same thing be applied to other parts of the world?
In Germany, the government is facing that exact problem as the 2017 federal election commences. While incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel looks to win the reelection, a report from USA Today reveals that things could go potentially wrong as a result of, not Russians, but Americans.
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Political science professor Simon Hegelich had this to say about the role American hackers from the reactionary alt-right movement have been having in the German elections:
“A lot of the stuff we are seeing in Germany can be linked to, or is at least inspired by, the ‘alt-right’ movement in the U.S.”
This should come as no surprise given Merkel’s continual policy conflicts with U.S. President Donald Trump, such as her affirmation to stay with the Paris Climate-Accord after Trump pulled the country out of it. The ironic thing, of course, is that Merkel herself does not come from a leftist party, instead belonging to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany faction that espouses centrist values. Politics in the U.S. have moved so far right that the Republican Party’s base consists of degenerates from a seemingly bygone era that see anything even slightly left-leaning as a communist.
We hope the German defense prevails against this propaganda campaign.
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