When Insiders Are the Threat
Burbank, Greenhalgh, Marks, Jefferson
Voting Village @ DEF CON 33 · Day 1 · Voting Village
This talk, "When Insiders Are the Threat," presented at Voting Village, unpacks a series of coordinated, multi-state breaches of U.S. election systems, potentially representing the largest election security compromise in the nation's history. The speakers — Marilyn Marks, Susan Greenhalgh, David Jefferson, and Jessica Burbank — meticulously detail how partisan actors, often with insider assistance, gained unauthorized access to sensitive voting machine software and data across multiple states following the 2020 election. The core message underscores the profound implications of these breaches for election integrity, the ease with which current systems can be exploited, and the alarming lack of a comprehensive federal investigation into these interconnected incidents.
AI review
A legitimate and important topic — coordinated insider-facilitated breaches of election systems across multiple states — but this is more investigative journalism and legal advocacy than security research. The technical content is real but thin, and the panel format means it never goes deep enough on any single vector to satisfy a technical audience.