This is pretty funny

Hi, @Maw... Can't sleep?

I've had a bit of a nap and am about to head back to sleep probably, or try.

Imagine for a moment, that you have a computer not on the internet: You can still attack this computer through different means, anything that opens up the access to the computer itself. Flash drives, ethernet ports.

You don't even need to boot the computer fully to compromise it.

@TaLoN132 Keep reading, there are multiple links to protocols recommended by CISA i.e. Mr. Keegan and connection to the Internet is one of those protocols. As is 2 stage authorization, Protection of admin log on codes, an agreement with vendor for access to update the software regularly.

I actually got something to eat at the site, I did not see pizza or hot dogs on the menu.

Dominion has multiple ethernet ports, and USB ports.

So you would connect it to the internet to download the cybersecurity suite?

What?

No, you can inject exploits, rootkits, firmware hacks.

Leslie said every hardware in every presinct has to connect to the internet to download the cybersecurity suite because Krebs Hillary and Soros said so 😅

@Maw I actually believed that abnormal voter registration and inflated numbers of eligible voters was going to be the issue. After reading earlier comments about death threats to a guy named Kreg on this site, I looked him up. And found a complete instruction manual produced via the department of homeland security and see I SA that insured did this shit show of an election happened. I am so pissed off right now I can’t even speak.

Oh, no, that's not true.

They usually use a USB drive to update the machines.

In the majority of cases when dealing with things that aren't actually computers.

Like your phones at one point.

Like cameras.

(I think on phones it was done via SD cards)

@Maw that may be the case but the instruction manual does require a network connection and updates regularly. I’m not saying that a thumb drive couldn’t have been used because it obviously was since they lost 47 of them. But why would a federal agency utilize Pardison political action organizations associated with crazy leftists in outlining election security?

Sure, a *network* connection.

Because the machines need to communicate with a source to aggregate data.

This doesn't necessarily mean the internet.

Pretending that every organization that has taken a dollar from Soros or Koch makes them inherently evil is silly

All of the voting machine discussed on Defcon's are cpus.

In the manual it’s referred to as vendor access for software updates. Which I believe is what Georgia claimed was because of a glitch there.

Software updates are one possible vector of attack?

@Dedkraken pretending that having 6 to 8 of them intimately involved in establishment of election security protocols, is reasonable is silly.

So, if what you're saying is correct, it's likely that this is the sort of system they're looking at.

Nothing tells me for sure that they are using internet.

Why would the local server be connected to the internet

So what did they supposedly do that messed up election security protocols?

Or think it is

I mean the security on the machines themselves are terrible, and that's been shown numerous times over the course of multiple applications for certification in CA/TX.

LAN with no connection to WAN or Internet?

@LeslieW In my opinion, what many Trump supporters are experiencing is a form of extreme "confirmation bias". Everyone is so sure that fraud has occurred that they are actively working to prove it. Every unknown action is suspicious. Every election worker is a suspect. Every rumor is fact. And every allegation is evidence. And everyone glosses over that the conspiracy theory about hidden backdoors or easily hacked election equipment, if true, would mean that the 2016 was conducted with even more fraud susceptible systems then we have now...

Nonexistent

Practically in certain examples, yes.

The security was so fundamentally flawed that it was next to completely insecure.

No BIOS passwords open USB ports

That seems like a stretch 😅