Voter Fraud, Voter Supression, Cyber Crime: What's the Bigger Threat to Democracy?

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Whenever these cybersecurity stories pop up I think it's important to restate that it is possible for any individual to secure their own communications in ways that cannot be hacked.

Somehow that fact is never mentioned in these stories — as if to lure the public into a false sense of insecurity and dependence.

E.g., see GNU Privacy Guard.

True.

More fear-mongering from the press and a need to run to the remedy offered that will protect us [["good afternoon, I am Bruce, and I work with Microsoft Tech support calling to tell you your computer has a virus, that your refrigerator is running away, and Prince Alpert is suffocating in a can.") from the criminals who love to "do crime for crime's sake", those wacky germs on the greater populace of youth threatening to get at your child [[Sorry, no rough n' tumble "Little Rascal" lifestyle living for your kid.), and a terrorist under every rug [[no wait, wait...Africanized bees, no Y2K, no...uh...heavy metal-listening, Dungeons & Dragons-playing Satanist Childcare workers, no communists in Hollywood....no wait, Muslims....uh....Marv Alpert.).