Today the /Texas Observer/, Austin based and founded 1954, published my
new article, first in a series about whistleblower Reality Winner:
https://www.texasobserver.org/reality-winner-vr-systems-whistleblower/
My article discusses the 2016 cyberattacks Reality Winner disclosed --
two interrelated spearphishing offensives by Kremlin military officers,
first against election technology supplier VR Systems, then against
local Florida elections officials -- in the context of the Texas
Secretary of State certifying the vendor's e-pollbooks for use statewide
in Texas a little more than a year ago. I interview a county information
security officer, two county elections administrators, as well as
Winner's mother and lawyer, all of them Texans. Toward the end of the
piece, I discuss polarization and historical context around various
evidence for, and various lack of evidence for, election meddling in the
United States.
:-Doug