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Black Hat and DEF CON Hackers Show Support for Kamala Harris
This week, the annual Black Hat hacker convention ended, and the cybersecurity conference DEF CON 32 kicked off in Las Vegas. On the sidelines of these events was the Hackers for Hers fundraiser, in which people from the hacking and cybersecurity communities donated an estimated $150,000. Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign Fund
Black Hat and Hackers Show Support for Harris at DEF CON 2024
The event was hosted by former White House acting National Cyber Security Director Kemba Walden and his former acting deputy principal director, as well as DEF Seven Voting Village co-founder Jack Brown at a bar at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Hosted. The total more than doubled from the previous two events, which jointly supported Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
Although the numbers weren’t huge, an estimated 150 out of the thousands who attended these conferences, given the inherent distrust of all things ‘government’ by some elements of the hacking community, this was due to cyber security issues. There is evidence of Harris’ past work to deal with. Hackers from Black Hat and DEF CON should gather like this. “We made more money than we expected to make,” Walden said. Politics“But more importantly, or just as important to me, was that people here understood that Vice President Harris was not new to this place.”
Hacking voting machines for free and fair elections
Some users of X, formerly Twitter, have already complained on the social network that what they call Hackers for Harris amounts to election meddling. However, this is a misinterpretation of what hackers at these events, and specifically those participating in the Voting Village, do there. Black hat And DEF CON Cybersecurity conventions are the most anticipated for hackers not only in the US but worldwide. They are places to share knowledge and help secure systems, software and services going forward. Voting villagewhich first appeared at DEF CON in 2017, exists to enable hackers to probe the vulnerabilities of voting machines to make them more secure during elections.
In 2018, when Harris was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, voting machine vendors lobbied against Voting Village. Harris was among them. Letter signatories One such vendor supported the event and argued that “free, fair, and credible elections are the foundation of our democracy, and protecting our elections is an urgent national security priority.” This contribution to the hacking community was not forgotten, hence the success of the Hackers for Hers event.
