Laura Galante: How to exploit democracy April 2017, russia, russiahacking

Laura Galante Cyberspace analyst Laura Galante profiles advanced cyber threats and network breaches and investigates the political, military and financial implications of cyber operations. :12 Let s say you despise Western democracy. Democracy, in all its trappings, free elections, town halls, endless debates about the proper role of government. Too messy, too unpredictable, too constraining for your taste. And the way these democracies band together and lecture everyone else about individual rights and freedoms it gets under your skin. 0:40 So what to do about it You can call out the hypocrisy and failures of Western democracies and explain how your way is better, but that s never really worked for you. What if you could get the people whose support is the very foundation of these democracies to start questioning the system Make the idea occur in their own minds that democracy and its institutions are failing them, their elite are corrupt puppet masters and the country they knew is in free fall. To do t