There may be lessons for 2024 election workers in the precautions taken at the conference to protect election security researchers from harassment.
08/13/2023 12:44 PM EDTEvery August at a conference hall in Las Vegas, long lines of computer hackers armed with USB sticks, screwdrivers or their bare fingernails try breaking into election equipment — all in the hope of finding better ways to protect it.
At last year’s DEF CON, a pair of minor but troubling incidents involving election conspiracy theorists set off alarm bells for said Catherine Terranova, one of the two organizers of the Voting Village. Two election workers from Georgia are now suing Trump ally Rudy Giuliani for defamation, after they became the target of debunked accusations of voter fraud spread by allies of the former president.
At the DEF CON conference in 2022, individuals working for the right-wing media outlet One American News showed up at the Voting Village and began aggressively approaching individuals in the room with cameras. DEF CON has a separate security staff, also volunteer, while Caesar’s Forum, where this year’s conference is being hosted, provides armed guards. But neither is big enough to offer round-the-clock support inside the 6,000-square-foot ballroom the Voting Village occupies.
Terranova said she is planning to put together white paper about the voting village’s experience. The hope is that the findings would be valuable not just in terms of physical safety: it could also aid cybersecurity and election integrity efforts, since many ways to hack voting systems require physical access to those devices.
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