Hacking Elections For Fun & Profit | Pukhraj, Anand, Eva & Hari | Keynote Panel

Moderator: Pukhraj Singh Panelists: Anand Venkatanarayanan, Eva Galperin & Hari K. Prasad Panel Abstract: The realm of hacking has finally reached a stage where the brain becomes the most potent attack surface. The Russian playbooks unleashed in Ukraine and the 2016 US presidential elections were not mere flukes but marked the onset of full-scale cognitive cyber offense. The world got a glimpse of the particular applications of cyber-enabled information operations and how they could be woven into the conventional structures of diplomacy, power, and conflict. The reach of the internet brought a non-linear, pervasive information war to the very monitors and social media feeds of ordinary citizens. India, too, has borne the brunt of trenchant disinformation which has now become the modus operandi of nearly all major political parties. The moderator of the panel flags it as an emerging, non-partisan national security issue. The Iranians were recently found to be undertaking influence operations which tried to polarise the domestic Indian polity with divisive internal agendas. The precedents have already been set.

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