How many people would have the credentials to “update” the system?
And wouldn’t they have to perform the update as they are logged in?
I’m no IT pro - but it appears we are looking for a small group of peeps who need to have their laptops siezed.
April 16, 2020:
Former White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, Michael Daniel, notes in the film that voting machine companies generally are not known for cybersecurity expertise. Jake Stauffer, a former cyber analyst for the Air Force who has tested ES&S and Dominion voting systems for the state of California observed that:
What I have found, especially in the voting system arena, is that security is not really taken very seriously.
Jake Stauffer, former cyber analyst for the Air Force who tested ES&S and Dominion voting machines.
When Stauffer tested ES&S’s DS200 machine, they found multiple vulnerabilities that would enable an attacker to gain full access to the system, change configurations, and install a modified operating system without election officials knowing. Stauffer states that the vulnerabilities would enable a hacker to gain the highest level of privilege and gain remote access into the system and do whatever they wanted to do, “whether its change an election or shut the system down.”
Seizing laptops won’t help. Likely will have been introduced on thumb drives, also likely the thumb drives have been destroyed.