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(15,926 posts)task force to safeguard American elections!
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/16/trump-putin-russia-cybersecurity-689470
"It could go down as one of the most ridiculed ideas in cybersecurity that wont go away: a joint Russian-American task force to protect future elections from hackers.
When President Donald Trump initially mentioned the idea in a pair of tweets on July 9, 2017, he said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had discussed forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking & many other negative things, will be guarded
and safe.
The notion prompted bipartisan disbelief, and Trump backed away from it within hours. But it surfaced again Monday after the two leaders met in Helsinki, Finland, when Putin suggested both countries work together to examine the evidence that Russia had meddled in the U.S. presidential election.
We can analyze [evidence] through the joint working group on cybersecurity, the establishment of which we discussed during our previous contacts, Putin suggested, confirming that he and Trump had talked about the idea before."....(more)
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