The actual investigation/article, by Propublica.
VOTE ,VOTE ,VOTE
I don’t really understand why voting machines are complicated enough that there are feasible vulnerabilities. They have one job, and it’s to count. It really shouldn’t be too tough for a crack team of competent devs to write the software required to make them work securely. No network access, a memory safe language, and strict business rules should be relatively trivial to setup. Double that will external audits and you’ve got yourself a stew.
Answer: confidentiality of the vote
Problem is we buy these things from the lowest bidder
The likely motive:
“My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like,” one of the former officials told ProPublica. “This goes against everything CISA represents.”
Well, this and to exploit them. Like:
Step 1: exploit vulnerabilities.
Step 2: accuse opponent of exploiting them, lock them up.
Step 3: profitWell that was…unexpected. Surely the more likely scenario is that they exploit the hack to change the results?
Or they’ll deliberately introduce a hack that appears to benefit the Dems, in order to claim they’ve been cheated.
That’s a much more findable paper trail than “holy shit we just found a vulnerability we didn’t know about, that means someone might have cheated so we have to invalidate the results”
Instead of “whoopsie this thing says I won even though everyone you talk to says they voted against me”
His only real move in elections is to scream cheating. This is exactly what he wants to just declare the elections fake.
He has two moves: to scream cheating, and to cheat himself.
“Every accusation is an admission”
all that russian bloatware is installed in GOP controlled machines.
Do vulnerabilities in voting software typically get disclosed to the public? Is there a CVE list somewhere that I can browse?
Just open source the code, that’s the best way to help validate the systems used. Though, no telling if they’d be modified, update/patched, or using a compromised fork, so who knows…
Americans deserve what’s about to happen to them.
Good thing we don’t all get what we deserve. That’d be an even worse world than the one we live in.
fuck you, asshole.
Choose better politicians then…
And the rest of the world?
Sucks to be us right now. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
