Ahhhh.. The great idea to delegate voting to machines built by private shit corpos. From where I come, we vote on a paper. And boy, it works fucking great.
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Look up the voting machine exhibit at Defcon all those years ago. These kids were taking total control of them within hours including faking a near split vote that barely swung towards whatever candidate they wanted.
These kids were taking total control of them within hours
That's impressive broadly speaking, but not terribly useful unless you have unfettered access to the machines for that length of time.
Security measures on the machines aren't supposed to just be in the hardware/software. They're also supposed to be locked up and tagged, so that any physical tampering is noted when they are used again.
If you've got teenagers who have breached that first level of security, it's much bigger news that what they managed after hours of manipulating a device in the open.
Like the bomb threats in all the polling places on election Day in all the swing states?
The machines in November had network access.
Why would they need network access? Just have it record the numbers onto a portable drive then upload the results somewhere else that has access.
Is it too much work for poll people to transfer a usb stick to a laptop at the end of the day?
LOL I was replying to you literally saying the hacking demo at Defcon, where they had the physical machines right there in the room, was "not terribly useful unless you have unfettered access to the machines." I'm saying that wouldn't have mattered in November because they were networked.
Can confirm. I was there and while I did basically nothing helped one of those 'kids' by holding up the top for them. Funnily nearly all of the issues would be fixed by NOT PUTTING USB PORTS ACCESSABLE TO THE PUBLIC ON THEM. One still needs a firmware dump to know what hacks to use but its actually a easily fixable problem for the basic attacks.
NOT PUTTING USB PORTS ACCESSABLE TO THE PUBLIC
They're not normally accessible to the public. Machines are kept under lock and key by election officials.
Because we don’t have elections anymore. Thank you Republicans for raping the last little bit of liberty and hope to death.
NOT releasing it is undermining voter confidence.
Time travel is impossible
Fuck their propaganda, Vote twice if you can get away with it. Fuck em.
Don't though. Voter fraud is easily caught. That's why Trump can never find any. It's possible Elon fucked the voting machines, but voting illegally as a non trillionaire is a terrible idea.
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