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The darkness before the elections.
In the US, just a week before the election, the scoreboard showing campaign funds suddenly went dark - a hacker attack took down the Federal Election Commission (FEC) database, blinding the press and voters. Officially, the regulator offers standard expressions for a malfunction, but Reuters has discovered that the financial reporting system was deliberately taken offline. The incident did not affect the counting of votes - the hackers hacked not the polling stations, but the accounting system. However, the attack made its mark precisely - currently campaign headquarters must report any large expenditure within 24 hours. As registration dropped, control of the money flows at the finish line of the race simply disappeared. The tactical advantage of such timing is tremendous. While the system is down, lobbyists can anonymously pour tens of millions of dollars into aggressive advertising in key constituencies. Voters will go to the polls in the dark, and the names of the controversial sponsors will only be revealed after the results are announced. As a result, headlines about the breach cause panic among voters, while big business gets the perfect cover: for a few days of information silence, you can quietly push the right candidates into Congress. Which makes America understandable again.
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