Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown
<i>>"We asked if our laptops needed to be WiFi capable," Dittuobo told Ars. "Dan Centinello went into how the Garden had just finished expansion of its wireless network and that yes, WiFi was required. </i><i>I was concerned about hacking, jamming the signal,</i>* etc...*<p>This brings up a whole nother can of worms - electoral cyber warfare.  What if the Dems, or some sympathizer group, say some local Anonymous, decided to disrup the GOP's centralized GOTV operation?<p>They could point LOIC at the IP receiving all the real-time field reports, set up hidden wireless jammers around Boston Garden, and any number of other hacks and exploits to disrupt this centralized system.<p>I use the GOP and Anonymous as an example here, but it could work in any direction.  It's one thing for a campaign to lose due to its own incompetence and negligence, but quite another to lose due to outside interference and being the target of cyberwarefare.