More from the article:
Russian hackers are suspected of breaching voter registration systems in Illinois and Arizona.
Arizona went so far as to shut down the state’s voter registration system for a week. No data was stolen but it was downloaded. As for Illinois, some voter data was stolen!
ICANN does more than just assign and/or approve your website’s domain. ICANN has its own Security and Stability Advisory Committee, which “engages in ongoing threat assessment and risk analysis of the Internet naming and address allocation services to assess where the principal threats to stability and security lie, and advises the ICANN community accordingly.” They are equivalent to your security guard at the bank. Why change the security guard now when voter data is more vulnerable – and prized - than ever?
If ICANN changes hands, so do the security measures taken to protect the rightful owner of your web site. If a site was hijacked today – not an uncommon crime in the cyber world - to reassert yourself as the rightful owner, you would go through law enforcement channels, your domain provider, and yes, ICANN.
When a significant event happens to a web site, businesses, cyber securities companies, and ICANN all know their roles and act together in tandem to mitigate the threat. They are in lockstep with an emergency call plan that has been mapped out through trial and error over the years.
ICANN’s actions have made the internet safer for you. Will that still hold true after Sept. 30?
Ping!
Another one of the major parting gifts the evil man in the white house plans.
And just in time to hack the electoral system for Hillary. Yay.
As Drudge asks, “Why so close to the election?”
No. If ICANN is not here in the USA, nothing will be stable.
If recall correctly, the U.S. invented this.... We cannot relinquish control.
I tweeted this to everyone I know. We need to seriously call, write, or tweet Congress critters that we’re onto them and if they let this stand, we will have revenge.
obama has f***ed up everything he’s touched, and now he wants to give away control of the Internet to his globalist pals.
It’ll be a wonder if the USA EVER recovers from all the damage done by the democrat party hack in the White House.
The internet is dead. Has been for decades.
Can we be sure that things on the internet are real ? True ?
No. Never could. Stop asking.
Could very well be the intention of many people.
I believe October 1 will be ‘blue skies’ for free speech and they will taunt us as ‘chicken little fearmongers’.
The trolls probably have it right on that score.
... however ...
It’s possible that ICANN could indeed move quickly enough to censor Hillary critics and Trump supporters early next month.
But I think they won’t because it would backfire bigtime.
They will be far more insidious and probably even incremental.
What’s to stop foreigner from registering to vote?
Ummm...in the digital age, that's the same as stealing.
Anyone who thinks ICANN plays a significant role in cybersecurity...or that it's transfer significantly increases cyber risk...needs to read more.
It performs a bland and menial administrative function, Cruz hysteria notwithstanding.
Take the “Russian hackers” meme with a grain of salt or two - all the best hacking software is of Russian origin and free to any interested party.