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BoogyMan
09-12-2022, 09:45 PM
As a cybersecurity engineer of 30 years now I am trying to put aside how I feel about the voting machine companies and just look at this objectively. It is hard to do. Every system connected to the global Internet WILL be breached at some point, it isn't a matter of if, it is a matter of when. With the destruction of decorum around election integrity that we have seen already how can it be justified to push forward with electronic systems for which the security holes are large enough to drive a train through?

How can we ever trust an election run on systems with known unpatched CVEs?

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-donald-trump-georgia-6c5483c82b47cf402136b39e72326309


The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about the alleged involvement of a Trump ally in the breach of voting equipment at a county roughly 200 miles south of her Atlanta office.

The widening of the probe highlights the latest instance in which unauthorized people appear to have gained access to voting equipment since the 2020 election, primarily in battleground states lost by Trump. Election experts have raised concerns that sensitive information shared online about the equipment may have exposed vulnerabilities that could be exploited by people intent on disrupting future elections.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking to have attorney Sidney Powell, who tried persistently to overturn Trump’s loss, testify before a special grand jury seated for the investigation into possible illegal election interference. In her court petition filed Thursday, Willis said Powell is “known to be affiliated” with Trump and the Trump campaign and has unique knowledge about her communications with them and others “involved in the multi-state, coordinated efforts to influence the results of the November 2020 elections in Georgia and elsewhere...”