State Report Says New California Voting Machines Prone to "Insider" Hacking

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Anybody with even a little tech savvy knows these are not little things.  A mystery USB port?  An OS bootable from USB that overrides the BIOS and leave no fingerprints in the event log? I mean, really?



Report Warns That California Super Tuesday Primary Critical to Bernie Sanders Could be Hacked by "Insiders"

Report Warns That California Super Tuesday Primary Critical to Bernie Sanders Could be Hacked by "Insiders"

A recently released report commissioned by California Secretary of State Alex Padilla details hundreds of security violations in the controversial new proposed barcode voting system for Los Angeles County, California's largest county, which a "vendor insider," an "election official insider," or a "poll worker" could exploit to hack the outcome of the all-important California Democratic Primary.

The race is currently neck-and-neck between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, with Elizabeth Warren dropping into third place in most polls.

The state's new proposed system has already been criticized for relying on barcodes which a human cannot read as the indicator of the voter's intentions.

The report is located at the California Secretary of State's website, at a page entitled Los Angeles County VSAP - Certification Information.

In describing one system vulnerability which involves bypassing the system's normal boot cycle, by utilizing an extraneous USB port, the mere presence of which is not compliant with state certification standards, the report opines:

"Because booting from a USB drive doesn’t use the operating system on the targeted computer, that computer is offline from the System’s perspective. As such, this approach defeats the ability of Carbon Black to prevent running unregistered executables. For the same reason, Snare, the logging system, will not receive any information while running from the USB drive. ... This attack could be conducted by an elections official insider or a vendor insider."

"Carbon Black" and "Snare" are part of the software's security system. The report declares that the system grants "excessive root access" and "the ability to boot the system from a USB port," which gives "access to the system by unauthorized individuals."... FULL ARTICLE Report Warns That California Super Tuesday Primary Critical to Bernie Sanders Could be Hacked by "Insiders"
 
Does it matter? Hillary won California by 1 1/2 million, and then the illegals ran up the total another 3 million. Luckily, we have the Electoral College. So if Bernie Babies hack the primary vote computers, and Bernie gets to be the "Dem" candidate, even though he's a commie, California will still go Dem, and it would, whomever the nominees are. But the Electoral College will still function, hopefully the same way as the last election.
 
It's not the Bernie bros who will hack it it's the Biden gremlins. That how they rammed Hillary through in 2016. Trillions of dollars in the defense budget at stake you think they're going to leave that to chance?
 
Does it matter? Hillary won California by 1 1/2 million, and then the illegals ran up the total another 3 million. Luckily, we have the Electoral College. So if Bernie Babies hack the primary vote computers, and Bernie gets to be the "Dem" candidate, even though he's a commie, California will still go Dem, and it would, whomever the nominees are. But the Electoral College will still function, hopefully the same way as the last election.

If not for the Electoral College Los Angeles County and NYC would choose every president.
 
Anybody with even a little tech savvy knows these are not little things.  A mystery USB port?  An OS bootable from USB that overrides the BIOS and leave no fingerprints in the event log? I mean, really?



Report Warns That California Super Tuesday Primary Critical to Bernie Sanders Could be Hacked by "Insiders"

Report Warns That California Super Tuesday Primary Critical to Bernie Sanders Could be Hacked by "Insiders"

A recently released report commissioned by California Secretary of State Alex Padilla details hundreds of security violations in the controversial new proposed barcode voting system for Los Angeles County, California's largest county, which a "vendor insider," an "election official insider," or a "poll worker" could exploit to hack the outcome of the all-important California Democratic Primary.

The race is currently neck-and-neck between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, with Elizabeth Warren dropping into third place in most polls.

The state's new proposed system has already been criticized for relying on barcodes which a human cannot read as the indicator of the voter's intentions.

The report is located at the California Secretary of State's website, at a page entitled Los Angeles County VSAP - Certification Information.

In describing one system vulnerability which involves bypassing the system's normal boot cycle, by utilizing an extraneous USB port, the mere presence of which is not compliant with state certification standards, the report opines:

"Because booting from a USB drive doesn’t use the operating system on the targeted computer, that computer is offline from the System’s perspective. As such, this approach defeats the ability of Carbon Black to prevent running unregistered executables. For the same reason, Snare, the logging system, will not receive any information while running from the USB drive. ... This attack could be conducted by an elections official insider or a vendor insider."

"Carbon Black" and "Snare" are part of the software's security system. The report declares that the system grants "excessive root access" and "the ability to boot the system from a USB port," which gives "access to the system by unauthorized individuals."... FULL ARTICLE Report Warns That California Super Tuesday Primary Critical to Bernie Sanders Could be Hacked by "Insiders"
Gee... Who saw that coming?
 

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