CYBER Insights » THREAT INTEL: DEMOCRACY – What Democracy? The word comes from the Greek “Demos” & “Kratos”

THREAT INTEL: DEMOCRACY – What Democracy? The word comes from the Greek “Demos” & “Kratos”

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Gibraltar: Wednesday 19 June  2024 at 13:30 CET

THREAT INTEL: DEMOCRACY – What Democracy? The word Democracy comes from the Greek words “Demos” meaning People, and ”Kratos” meaning Power.

By Andy Jenkinson – Guest Contributor |  Group CEO Cybersec Innovation Partners
via IainFRASER.net/CYBERInsights
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THREAT INTEL: Democracy – what Democracy...

The word Democracy comes from the Greek words ”Demos”, meaning People, and ”Kratos” meaning Power. The word illusion comes from the Latin word ”Ludere” meaning to play.

Democracy is little more than a National and International illusion to appease a populace into believing their voice actually counts and that they do have the ability to decide their futures.

Unlike our forefathers who literally killed people or a group of people should they disagree or challenge them, now such antics are predominantly left for certain former aviation whistle-blowers. Governments and others are able to deceive and manipulate election outcomes by being able to tamper with the voting.

Not to alter votes at voting machines, that’s so 2020, but at server level. The illusion could not be more blatant right in front of everyone’s eyes.

From August 2021 to October 2022, the UK’s Electoral Commission, our U.S. Vote.gov equivalent, suffered a cyberattack whereby 41 million UK citizens, the vast majority of voting adults data was exfiltrated.

The NCSC (part of GCHQ) were called in and confirmed the attack to the UK nearly a year later on Aug 8 2023.

Forget the delay, forget Cyber essentials, forget the Cyberattack lasted for some 16 months and exposed every UK Adult to cybercrime. The INSECURE servers were blamed for enabling Access enabling the intrusion and exfiltration.

The question should be; Why are the Electoral Commission servers and DNS Zone still INSECURE?

Hailed as the UK’s most important Election, why are all Political Parties and the Electoral Commission’s basic security so wholly and inadequately EXPOSED and INSECURE?

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In Summer of 2020 our research showed just how easy such antics were when we discovered a Korean server performing the same exfiltration from Vote.gov.

The reason, as Joseph Stalin said: ”It is not who Votes that counts, but who counts the Votes.” External intrusion allows plausible deniability and the blame, should it be required, to blame that Nation State Cyber Bogeyman.

Make no mistake, when there is such a large a disparity and near uprising, Politics, and Governments are forced to show a degree of flexibility, however, the Puppeteering and illusion will continue and the Puppet Masters have a very firm, vice like grip on the Marionette.

Democracy – Power over the People is more the truth, just as Security – Control over the People…

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About Andy Jenkinson

Group CEO CIP. Fellow Cyber Theory Institute. Director Fintech & Cyber Security Alliance (FITCA) working with Governments. Recognised Expert in Internet Asset & DNS Vulnerabilities.

Andy Jenkinson is a senior and seasoned innovative Executive with over 30 years’ experience as a hands-on lateral thinking CEO, coach, and leader. A ‘big deal’ business accelerator, and inspirational, lateral thinker, Andy has crafted, created, and been responsible for delivering 100’s £ millions of projects within the Cyber, Technical, Risk and Compliance markets for some of the world’s largest, leading organisations. Andy has a demonstrable track record of largescale technical delivery and management within many sectors including the Professional, Managed, and Financial Services.