EMERALD ROBINSON
The FBI and CISA (the cybersecurity unit inside DHS) have issued a joint statement just 94 days before the 2024 election.
Are they telling you that America’s voting systems are secure and ready for the 2024 election?
No.
Are they telling you that America’s voting systems are vulnerable and not secure before the 2024 election?
Yes.
Here’s the key point:
This public service announcement is to raise awareness that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on election infrastructure, or adjacent infrastructure that supports election operations, could hinder public access to election information, but would not impact the security or integrity of election processes.
The FBI and CISA are telling you that “bad actors” will attack our voting systems —and these attacks will be successful!
How? Well, the American public will not have “public access to election information.”
Allow me to translate the language of bureaucratese into plain English: you won’t get election results on time.
This is the moment when I remind you: CISA’s role is supposedly to safeguard our election systems so that the American public has access to election results.
Instead, CISA is sending out bulletins that it has already failed.
CISA cannot safeguard our election systems.
This bulletin is simply an admission that CISA won’t be able to do its job — but the American public should not be too worried or upset about it.
You see: you won’t get election results on time in the coming election (94 days away!) but that doesn’t “impact the security or integrity of election processes.”
Failure is actually success at CISA!