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Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Hack a Voting Machine

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Defense One – A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its cybersecurity-focused agency: secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.

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