Posted on 07/30/2017 7:34:10 AM PDT by Zakeet
In other words... they were machines that were years out of date and they still needed instructions on how get into them?
Thank you.
How do they program those? With another computer that plugs into a port?
I always wondered..
Only the Democrats email showed up on wikileaks.
The Awan gang only serviced Democrats.
Awan now has a Clinton Foundation lawyer.
If that's what you got out of the article...go with it.
The above is exactly why it took "minutes" to hack the machines.
Then again, even without the above info. it probably woudl've only take a few more minutes at best. Anything running WindowsXP at this point is going to be vulnerable as hell.
And who really trust low level government officials (bureaucrats) to know how to secure voting machines anyway, whether remotely, virtual or physical?
C'mon already.....
Diebold is the biggest. They're also the largest ATM manufacturer and software provider in the US.
I ran a very large ATM rollout in the Chicago Area for then LaSalle Bank (now owned by Bank of America) and I'll tell you this: if you're a BoA customer, NEVER use a BoA ATM that isn't in a branch.
Just saying.
The operative word is “given remote access”
Absent the access, the machines are secure
The ballot definition is (supposed to be) just data, not a computer program. So how could it convey and install a new (fraudulent) vote-counting program onto the voting machine?
Voting machines designed in the 1980s (Shouptronic, AVC Advantage, AccuVote OS, Optech-III Eagle) store their programs in EPROM (Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory). To install a new program, you need to remove the EPROM chips from the motherboard and install new ones. (Then you can reprogram and reuse the old ones using an EPROM “burner” device.) Those machines are not likely hackable through the Internet, even indirectly via corrupted EMS computers. (What if the EMS sends fraudulent ballot definition cartridges? This should be detectable through pre-election Logic and Accuracy testing, if it’s thorough. And in some cases it can be detected/corrected even after the election.)
As a side note to this thread, please consider the following.
If the states hadn’t let themselves be spooked by the Progressive Movement into straying from the 12th Amendment procedure for electing a POTUS, then there wouldn’t be over 100 million constitutionally meaningless popular votes to count.
The president of the Senate would still able to hand-count the then total 538 electoral votes which determine the president and vice president.
Again...go with it.
I hope you have just as much fun ignoring it.
Who says I'm ignoring it?
Have you followed Votescam like I have?
Just scroll down a little bit...article #7.
VOTE FRAUD CONFERENCE/AUDIT THE VOTE...11/22/2000, by philman_36
It's been a serious matter for a number of years, as my post indicates.
50 minutes and no snappy comeback. I conclude this conversation is over.
They bought machines that were being sold on eBay. That means that they were old and out of date and most of the security software had been stripped out. Then they gave them access and instructions on how to do it. The surprise would be if they had not been able to breach them.
It is like handing someone the keys to a car and then writing an article about how fast the car can be stolen. Or putting remote control rocket engines inside a fuel tank and crowing about how it "explodes on impact".
If they want to do a true test using up to date machines and the rest of the security measures that would provide good data.
A rigged test does no one any good. Except for the guy selling advertising.
Go ahead...you can do it. I apologize for the mischaracterization of you...
Aside...a return to machine-readable marks on paper ballots is the only way this can be avoided. No punch cards.
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