Monday, November 23, 2020

MSNBC: "Hacking your vote."

The establishment media have continued to cover up election fraud since the election, so it's interesting to note that the following MSNBC report from back in August 2019 was a lot more open about the potential for election fraud. The caption reads, 'Hacking your vote. Hackers putting new voting machines to the test.'


"Jacob, tell me who these actors are and what they're finding."

"This is a very paranoid scene here, Allie. We're among some of the greatest hacking minds in the country. People who have been brought together by above board companies to try to be as creative as they can and as insidious as they can in attacking systems like you see behind me. These are some of the most common systems used as of 2018 in elections, and so they're here to really test this stuff out."

"[Audio silence] ... vulnerability that they discovered."

"The possibility is all too real."
"Well, one of the big vulnerabilities we're definitely seeing here is just the incredible, the dated nature of this technology. It is extremely old. A lot of it dates from the 90s, and what's one of the most alarming things to me is that a lot of the equipment you see behind me, in fact all of the equipment you see behind me, was not in fact provided by the companies. Companies like ES&S and Dominion which are the top manufacturers of voting equipment. They had to buy this stuff on eBay and through government surplus. That's what the organizers told me here, and so the idea that we have to sort of pull this stuff in in order to test it out without the cooperation of the companies involved is really quite alarming, but considering the kind of sophistication I've seen - we have all of our phones off, even the wait staff here in Las Vegas have been told not to have their phones on while this conference is going on - the idea that they're going to then go at this kind of dated equipment is pretty alarming."

"Jake, cybersecurity companies, companies that are involved in this, banking, they spend billions of dollars on cybersecurity. Are the kinds of resources necessary to protect voting systems available to election officials in this country?"

"Well this is what's so alarming about being here is that you see teams literally have hundreds of hackers in the employ of companies like IBM, to be a sort of thinktank, a skunkworks for discovering the latest trends in hacking. Well, an election official barely has the money for a single IT consultant  much less anybody coming in to try to imagine what could go wrong if we went at these guys. So for me the gap here between the billions being spent on cybersecurity across the country by private actors and the fact they had to buy this equipment on eBay just to test it out, I think that tells you everything you need to know."

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Just over a year ago, MSNBC were alarmed at how insecure Dominion voting machines were. They were also alarmed at how uncooperative Dominion were with efforts to test the security of their machines.

So what changed between then and now? ðŸ¤”

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