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TALKING ABOUT CYBER RISKS

To point out some of the risks and cyber attacks that we may be victims of, Reimers groups them into four main areas: information theft, information destruction, information alteration and preventing you from entering your information. He says that to minimize the risks, a thorough analysis of each of them should be done.  So we can choose the technology and the necessary measures to avoid them. We also talk about security systems applied to electoral processes.  In this regard, Reimers believes that it is not so much a technical problem as a social problem.  Protecting an electoral system from a technical point of view, that 50 votes cast is 50 votes counted, is simple.  The current problem is in the manipulation of the electorate. Manipulating reality, in a world where information saturates our social networks, is much simpler than what we believe.  For the expert, we need to “mature socially” to handle so much information.  Social networks "know us", they know