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.
They just went private
Lock him up.
That would make sense, if it wasn't because he is likely to drop dead any time now. Motherfucker looks like he already died but nobody is willing to tell him.
Normally vulnerability testing would be a good thing, but in this case I think it's safe to assume the worst motivations for it.
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".
Also to discredit and/or try to nullify a not-so-favorable election outcome afterwards.
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.
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.
Pssst... They did it in 2016, and 2024. The only reason 2020 didn't work was the massive amount of mail in ballots. Vlad helped, and now they are just making extra sure their cheats worked.
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.
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.
I worry that comments like this can degrade the confidence in the system.
States run their own elections and they're usually administered at the county level. I can't speak for any other county but the way we do elections here are legit. This system is audited and administered by bipartisan teams. During elections I work with people from different parties and facilitate a system to ensure our voting process maintains integrity.
If you don't know how elections are administered where you live I encourage you to take an interest and get involved. We all have a duty here to oversee that we are administering elections with integrity.
The system is made up of many components, and voting machines are but one part. Even though they might be hackable in various ways, there are much more efficient ways these days to sway an election. The Cambridge Analytics scandal proved one efficient way, while there's now a growing belief that whoever controls the social media algorithm effectively controls public opinion.
And don't get me started on the two-party-system in the US...
So no need to hack the machines, really. The system is flawed/corrupt elsewhere more severely.
It’s totally fine though. Since no one in America has the balls to do anything about it- it’s legal.
The land of the questionably free and not so often brave.
Careful, they LOVE to get really fucking defensive and shitty about their cowardice.
They're the elephant that was tied to a stake as a baby
They have accepted their fate and are resigned to being fucked over
So they hate the people around them, rather than the cunts who put in the stake
Don't they have voting machines every year at DEFCON?
I feel like this is already been litigated.
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.
I never understand the point of the "But he was elected fairly" angle. So was Vladimir Putin as far as anyone can tell, so was Adolf Hitler, so was Stalin, the only major dictator of the last century that I can think of that definitely seized power through illegitimate means is Castro I suppose you could also make an argument for the CCP but certain people refute that.
Most dictators become dictators over time, the vast majority don't grab power from a legitimate government because they would instantly have a fight on their hands. Usually that only happens with the US's assistance.
The smoking gun for me is how much they've been screaming about others cheating. They cheated.
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.
Exactly what we did in the Netherlands. Our "CIA", the AIVD, researched the machines and found them susceptible to magnetic "eavesdropping" and therefore not compliant to our voting law. The Netherlands stopped using them since 2009. Source, dutch
Uplifting: He already looks like a cadaver.
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.
The actual investigation/article, by Propublica.
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.
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.
Source article for anyone wanting the original: https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump
As much as I would want to cry foul, this sound like a typical red team exercise.
This pedophile wants to be Porfirio Diaz soooo bad
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.)
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.
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.
And, as a bonus, the old school method has a tremendously low error rate.
I remember an article in a renowned computer mag about 20 years ago measuring error rates. The newest and greatest voting machine, at the time, still had way worse error rates than hand counting. Never mind everything that was around before. Maybe the most modern systems can achieve the same error rates as hand counting, dunno, haven't been keeping up.
I was absolutely floored with how bad the error rates of lever operated mechanical machines used to be. How anyone accepted those anywhere near a democracy was beyond me.
November 2023 repeat with another minor update.
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
Calling big balls.
Why do it in secret? Def con does it as sport.
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