There's another more sinister possibility - that the whole online electoral apparatus could be hacked and the result manipulated or discredited.
But the challenge of identifying potential threats has also become greater in the face of the IS's advanced online propaganda apparatus and grooming campaigns.
After the protesters organized on social media, the government cracked down, forced bloggers to register with the state, and began to build its own online propaganda apparatus.
ESI MS measurements were carried out with a SolariX (Bruker Daltonics, Billerica, MA) Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FTICR) MS equipped with a 7.0 T superconducting magnet and a standard ESI source, which was directly connected to the outlet of the online mixing apparatus.
And The Atlantic Monthly, in a much discussed article titled "HisSpace," described what Mr. Obama's impressive online fund-raising apparatus owes to the enhanced social networking of sites like MySpace, Twitter and YouTube.
Beijing's response has been to stonewall investigations and activate its robust Internet censorship apparatus, sanitizing online references to the case Chinese citizens might stumble across.
If the vertiginous seesaw between seeming anonymity and actual surveillance (by both commercial and state apparatuses) typifies online life, then our communications within it have, Scott suggests, an equally Janus-faced character.
Indeed, it's hard to imagine how ISIS could have designed a better pipeline for the U.S. counterterrorism apparatus than this online community.
This sound energy, measured in decibels (dB), increases linearly with shock intensity (Levine et al. 1984), which we confirmed with our own apparatus and methods (Online Resource 1).
It used a sophisticated online platform backed by a financial apparatus meant to hedge the company's bets.
