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Important component of the voting infrastructure so we wanted to highlight the vulnerability so i came up with the idea of having kids do it so that they would find it interesting. that being said even the kids, and 11-year-old girl was able to hack replica florida website. ed: 11-year-old was able to hack? >> just so you know, the guy who built this with the chief information security officer for rocketdyne, one of the biggest rocket manufacturers in the united states. he does cybertraining for the us military and homeland security. he is as good or better than any local election jurisdiction...

Our values. the task force now brings together across the waterfront of fbi expertise. so we're talking counterintelligence, cyber, criminal, and even counterterrorism. designed to root out and respond to foreign influence operations. for their part, our adversaries' influence operations have encompassed a wide range of activities. so just like we have a multidisciplinary response, that's because the threat is multidisciplinary. so just a few examples of some of the things we've seen over the past. targeting u.s. officials and other u.s. persons through traditional intelligence trade craft, cr...

Of the expertise, the cyber, and the counterterrorism designed to root out and respond to the foreign influence operations. for their part, our adversaries influence operations have encompassed a wide range of activities. like we have a multidisciplinary response, that is because the threat is multidisciplinary. examples in the past, targeting the u.s. officials and u.s. persons through traditional intelligence trade craft. criminal effort to suppress voting and provide illegal campaign financing. cyber attack against voting infrastructure with the computer intrusion targeting elected official...

Be able to get to the level of these adversaries and stare them down. we're talking about the most sophisticated cyberoperators in the world, russian intelligence, the iranians, the north koreans. >> reporter: the trump administration has come under fire for not announcing a comprehensive, coordinated plan to thwart cyberthreats. >> i think it is an embarrassment that this white house has not made election security a top priority and has not put the kind of attention and focus on it that we need. >> reporter: in may, top intelligence officials are sounding the alarm, comparing the state of dan...

>> the trump administration has come under fire for not announcing a comprehensive coordinated plan to thwart cyberthreats. >> i think it's an embarrassment that this white house has not made election security a top priority and has not put the kind of attention and focus on it that we need. >> in may, the cybercoordinator role on the national security councils was eliminated as top intelligence officials sounding the ararm. comparing the state of danks to the months before the 9/11 attacks. >> i'm here to say the warning lights are blinking red again. today the dlnl infrastructure serving thi...