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Information helpful for the clients. this back and forth began in late may when the government confirmed that the d.n.c. lawyers gave them copy of the forensic report by crowd strike, computer security firm. the government said their copy had redactions and the d.n.c. lawyers told them the blocked out sections had nothing to do with blaming moscow for the 2016 hacks. "counsel for d.n.c. told the government the redacted material concerns steps taken to remediate the attack and harden the d.n.c. and the d.c.c.c. system against future attacks. according to counsel no redacted information concerne...

Previously planning to cover in the middle of this hour. i am told there is some breaking news, we are getting a new guest about. at this point, i do not totally understand it. i have just been advised. but i swear by the time we get there, you'll know what it is and i will too. so friday nights are just like this now. bear with me. things might be a little hurly-burly. all right. june 2016, so the summer before the presidential election, that's when we first learned that the democratic party had been hacked. this is the first story that ran about it in "the washington post," which also hopefu...

Machines, the whole system is all run out of a centralized election server. and what this computer security firm was calling to let them know, on the date that state's secretary of state was nah, this is ridiculous, we don't need your help, on the day he said that, this computer security firm calls to say hey, basically, it's a little weird that you're the one secretary of state in the whole country who is saying no, i refuse any federal help, i don't need it, and it's ridiculous to think we'd ever be vulnerable to any hacking in my state, when his state had left the voting software and the vo...

From no federales, and his state appears to be possibly the worst protected state in the whole country in terms of its voting system. just a few weeks later, not long after that, this guy talks to politico and says i don't need any help, we're fine. computer security researchers are like dude, your whole system is publicly facing, i can access all of it. a few weeks later, the elections happen. the clinton campaign thought they might win in that state. they didn't win. in fact they lost by more than they thought possible in that state. they lost by more than five points. but trump wins the ele...

Know just as a courtesy that in case they weren't aware, their entire election system was completely open to the public and available without any hacking at all to any interested person who wanted to look at it or mess with it. this is a state where all of the voting on one type of electronic voting machine with no paper record created at any point in the process. and all of those election machines, the whole system is all run out of a centralized election server. and what this computer security firm was calling to let them know, on the date that state's secretary of state was nah, this is rid...