<div dir="auto"><div>Carl:</div><div dir="auto">Ah, how I appreciate young minds who can call up articles from two years ago.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I wonder if there might be something in the STO's MOSAIC concept that could be used to defend against attacks on all levels of our voting system(s) and even attack the attackers?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Such would require time and money -- and might be impossible given our lack of voting process standards. But something must be done to maintain, or regain, trust in participatory democracy.</div><div dir="auto">TJ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 4:40 AM Carl Tollander <<a href="mailto:carl@plektyx.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">carl@plektyx.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">After looking at Tom's ref on FB about teaching Military thinking to 2020 election security infrastructure in democracies ( <a href="https://apnews.com/222bd1402c96bc487f5a0a2dc5bff12c?fbclid=IwAR2PSR8UxoSlEoulaar8ITN1vRNRChd34VVgcU6WMNM4vOwnaEmr0eFOsQw" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/222bd1402c96bc487f5a0a2dc5bff12c?fbclid=IwAR2PSR8UxoSlEoulaar8ITN1vRNRChd34VVgcU6WMNM4vOwnaEmr0eFOsQw</a> )<div><br></div><div>I recalled an STO (Strategic Technology Office) article on MOSAIC from a couple years back. </div><div><a href="https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-08-04" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-08-04</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>There's a bunch of stuff about weaponizing complexity, and whether one approves or not, it is worth knowing about.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(28,28,28);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:17.5px"><i>“If we’re successful,” Burns said, “mosaic warfighting and resulting effects webs will give us the ability to inflict vast levels of complexity on an adversary to deter and counter aggression.”</i></span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(28,28,28);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:17.5px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(28,28,28);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:17.5px">"Inflicting Complexity..." . Always suspected, but ......hmmmm.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(28,28,28);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:17.5px"><br>Carl</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(28,28,28);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:17.5px"><br></span></div></div>
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