The administration wanted a voting machine hacked, but DOGE had already fired the experts capable of doing it. Apparently the one thing stopping a potential election conspiracy was Elon Musk’s ability to make government incompetent at absolutely everything. Task failed successfully.

Normally vulnerability testing would be a good thing, but in this case I think it's safe to assume the worst motivations for it.

It’s the old projection thing again.

Republicans: the Dems hacked voting machines and stole the election! Lock them up!

Also Republicans: we hacked a voting machine so we can steal the election.

Independent testing of voting machines and open sourcing the vulnerabilities in order to get them patched, is a good idea.

Unfortunately, we all know what the Trump Regime actually intends to do: Keep the vulnerabilities in their pocket, and use them to secure "victories".

The smoking gun for me is how much they've been screaming about others cheating. They cheated.

Voting machines are vulnerable just like any other machine, and have been proven time and time again that they're not particularly difficult to hack. DEF CON has been doing it for almost ten years at this point. First time in 2017, with lots of articles covering it. The year after even TIME reported about how an 11 year old did it. In 2024 they got some attention again due to Trump going for second term. But I don't think much came of it...

The US is a flawed democracy, and has been on a steady decline for years.

The first stone has fallen out of the wall. I hope it leads to more. If you look at the various numerical anomalies that occurred in swing states only, it becomes very plausible that Harris actually won.

• Mail-in votes closely reflected polling, but election-night voting (i.e. on the machines) contradicted the polls.
• Split-ticket voting occurred much more often than usual - in this case, ballots with a vote for Trump and votes for Democrats the rest of the way. This does happen in elections, but not nearly to the degree it happened in the swing states.
• The anomalies were always enough for Trump to win, but just below the thresholds that would trigger automatic audits.

Can't wait for stories like this to suddenly just disappear in November when Republicans somehow - miraculously! - barely squeek out enough votes to secure key races at the very las second.

Don't they have voting machines every year at DEFCON?

I feel like this is already been litigated.

As much as I would want to cry foul, this sound like a typical red team exercise.

So everyone who was involved in pushing that order is going to jail right?

Right?

Early voters are reporting some hijinks when selecting their choice so be VERY CAREFUL about confirming who you are voting for.

I know I am going to be checking in to make sure my vote was counted and counted for the people I want to win. You should to.

Lock him up.

Of course they hacked voting machines to audit their security. Apart from that, voting machines can't fulfill the transparency requirements of democratic elections on principle. So just not using them would be better anyway.

It’s totally fine though. Since no one in America has the balls to do anything about it- it’s legal.

Source article for anyone wanting the original: https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump

Both GW Bush in 2000, and Trump in 2016, lost the popular vote yet won the electoral college. They went on to appoint the conservative majority to the Supreme Court. The system has already been subverted with no meaningful attempts at reform.

Pillow magnate guy already got the inner workings of all the voting machines in 2020 and they reverse engineered them all from the swing states, likely all the red states too. GA I think, MI, CO, AZ, and so forth.

It's just one facet of their plans to rig elections (moreso.)

The actual investigation/article, by Propublica.

This is an inherent flaw of digital voting machines. One has to trust their integrity which only can be confirmed by a few specialists. By design, that is a lot simpler to undermine than a system that relies on a huge number of people where almost anyone who wants to is capable of taking part in securing the integrity of the vote.

No self respecting democracy should use them.

Now why in the world would they want to do that? For educational purposes only, I presume. Fascists are famously pro-education.

Remember tulsi was tasked with testing the machines before she resigned.

Go for it, they will choose the most inexperienced losers and it will blow up in their face. Like the doctored Epstein footage with the movie maker marks

Uplifting: He already looks like a cadaver.

November 2023 repeat with another minor update.

Calling big balls.

He's just going to ask Elon to do it for him instead

That picture looks like a wax figure

I read a story yesterday about Dolly Parton's sister and a few others saying they watched their votes for a democrat switch to the republican candidate before their eyes. She said she had to try it 3 times before it registered the correct vote. Though I have no more information than that I find this extremely troubling knowing with certainty that Trump and his enablers are completely willing to do this and worse in order to stay in power. Pay very close attention when you're voting.

Pen-testing is part of good security...

...but let's be real, anyone who believes Trump won't exploit this rather than patch it is delusional.

This pedophile wants to be Porfirio Diaz soooo bad

Ironically, the initiative was reportedly complicated by the fact that Elon Musk’s DOGE squad had laid off the CISA agents who would have known how to actually break into voting machines.

Article casually assuming that some vulnerability existed to exploit. The more journalistically-responsible way to phrase it would've been something more like "the CISA agents with expertise who might have been able to find a way to break into voting machines."

Why do it in secret? Def con does it as sport.

Yeah, this election is gonna be stolen for sure... And guess what, Muricans will do nothing about it. They will throw their hands in the air and say "well, I tried".

They already should have done something when their brain dead / brainwashed compatriots elected a CHILD-RAPING FELON, but nope. Sure, he was (possibly) "fairly" elected, that doesn't mean you can't show your "dissatisfaction" for it.

There is no such thing as security if you have physical access to the device. So yes, I am sure they could "hack" it. (Remove storage, alter the votes, re-insert storage).

That doesn't mean elections are compromised. It means one machine is compromised.