What to do about friend who thinks computerized elections are easily rigged?

I think Trump is gonna win so big even if Ds rig it, won’t be enough

Anything electronic can be rigged and easily

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prplhze2000

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You aren't real smart, are ya?

I mean, major data breaches are a regular occurrence and what we pass as election security is like an SNL skit.

The entire process is seriously lacking internal controls. I don't think that can be legitimately denied by anyone. There are so many places where manipulation can take place it is almost possible to belive that elections are fair.

Nothing connected to the Internet is secure. High security paper ballots with ID and in-person voting make it harder to cheat.

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What to do about friend who thinks computerized elections are easily rigged?

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You promote him from friend to mentor. He's trying to teach you basic reality while you still click on every link sent to you via email.

Wake up, grandma. "Computerized" does not mean secure.

No computers.
Paper ballots.
Easy.

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What do you say to that?

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He's not wrong, but "easily" is subjective.

Any system which is online is susceptible to some sort of attack/penetration. What helps you and I out is that we are lone individuals who are generally not deemed worthy of attention by sophisticated hackers. We blend into the larger fabric of the internet population.

The higher your profile, the more likely you are to be specifically targeted, rather than just the victim of a widely casted phishing net. If you are a Microsoft, Chase, FBI, etc. then you are constantly under attack.

Most incursions these days happen due to end-user actions. It's not just sending a Nigerian prince your banking account information so he can send you money for you to hold onto, it's getting opening an email seemingly from a co-worker asking for help by reviewing a project for them. It's going to a site running poorly policed banner ads while you don't have shite for A/V. It's someone bringing a thumb drive into work and plugging it into their work computer.

If you have a group of people in certain positions who are look at politics as nothing more than a "win-at-all-costs team sport", then yes. We saw with the Dominion software in 2020 that ballots can absolutely be digitally changed after they have been cast. We also saw that these machines which were supposed to be either on a closed network or air-gapped had internet access and that those machines could have been accessed at any time during the election.

Electronic voting has turned out to be an Amway, of sorts. It sounds good and looks good on paper, but the human factor causes the actual implementation and use to be worse than what we had prior.

Ever had, heard of, or know of someone who had their credit card info stolen at a gas pump?

Yes? then agree with him.