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In thes, participanting forum. I want to thank the guests that have taken the time to join us morning, to discuss this subject. And i also want to reach out and to cspan for covering something that i think us think is critically important. Undisputed that there are people that have been hacking into our elections for a long, long time. Evidence is indisputable. Start with 2016. But i think if we look back have seent, we might there were some people playing around in that arena, even before that time. So when we decided to get together to these organizations symposium toher a keel with hacking in u. S. Thetions and how to make 2020 election more secure. So were grateful that you joined us this morning. From the view in the audience the audience will probably remember but i did happen to talk about some of my colleagues, asked them how old they were 2001 on 9 11. Were in grade school a couple in school. Reminded them that i was called to the white house and then given the to set up the d ....
To welcome our next two speakers who will do a talk with different points of view. Our next speaker is mad lynn madeleine. Principal director for several policy for the office of the secretary of defense. Without further ado, lets get the party started. [applause] i will apologize, a heads up that our colleague will go first, but i am happy is that ok . If that is all right. Ok, so it is not the program, but [laughter] my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce david porter, assistant section chief with the Foreign Influence Task , counterintelligence division. He is joining us today from fbis headquarters. Thank you. [applause] sorry about that. Good morning, everybody. I am david porter, i served as the assistant section chief of the f. B. I. s Foreign Influence Task force. I appreciate the opportunity to be here this morning to represent the men and women ....
Gentlemen. Pleased on behalf of the Penn State Dickinson School of law, penn state institute for constitutional sciences, the center for democracy and technology, and the center for justice to welcome you to what i consider to be a very timely, and honestly a very, very important form and symposium. At the outset, i want to thank all of the participants regarding and incredible array of speakers dissipating in the forum. I want to thank the guests who have taken the time to join us this morning, and i also want to reach out and say thank you to cspan for covering something that all of us, i think regardless of republican, democrat, or independent, think is quickly important. It is undisputed that there are people who have been hacking into our elections for a long, long time. Indisputable. S we can start with 2016, and i think we can look back before that, we might have seen there were people playing around in that ar ....
Thank you very much. People fromwith dickinson. What we thought we would do with this section is to make it interactive, audience participation. We are very interested. We have many of our panelists that have remained. We would like them to respond and to participate in this session as well. We want to continue our discussion about the disparate provisions and the negative impact of social media. It is appropriate to let colleagues from penn state to initiate the conversation. Gentlemen, you may proceed. Hello. Thirdyear student at Dickinson School of law. Hello, everybody. My name is brian and i am also a thirdyear student. Happy to be here. So if we could, there we have heard a lot of interesting topics. Im glad we have so many excellent experts on hand with us. We are going to start it rolling a little bit. Talk somewhato about the technology hurdles, or if we have thoughts about ways that we can detect or combat short of thi ....