no indication of a DoS attack. <https://www.cloudflare.com/>
__________________ *Justin Paine* He/Him/His Head of Trust & Safety 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107 <https://www.cloudflare.com/> *PGP:* BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D <https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/BBAA6BCE33057FD66452711557B60114DE0B314D> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:51 AM Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > > Every election has problems. Most of the time, those problems aren't > noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure, besides the > actual voting itself. > > It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems having trouble > with the load. > > Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person) means more time to fix glitches. > > > > > https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7 > > The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned > elections officials nationwide last week that cyberattacks could disrupt > their systems during the run-up to the election. They particularly noted > “distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which inundate a computer system > with requests, potentially clogging up servers until the system becomes > inaccessible to legitimate users. >
