I heard these machines were online and TOS violation of course. Also that they are running 7 or XP either are certified. None of this would shock me at this point. Embedded XP would have been so easily hacked and had machine logs retrieved at this point if they were truly being investigated prior. Maybe I’m in left field...
If I'm not mistaken, I heard if the machines are updated they're supposed to be recertified. So they were counting unvarifiable mail in ballots on uncertified tabulators, and we're just supposed to certify, because Orange Man Bad.
True ! The whole technology aspect of this system is cringe worthy from the sidelines anyway. Seems normal though for enterprise software sales. Take a few “decision makers” to lunch and golf receive the contract. Zero technical validation or security review.
Microsoft no longer supports Win7 XP wink wink, yet there are still thousands of State Federal computers running this sh1t. The frinking Social Security admin has COBAL code still................
Facts ! 7 has been unsupported for what 2 years now ? Don’t even get me started on the rest running off 5.25 and backing up to tape. But yeah every “credible” publicly traded enterprise updated in the last couple years mandatory 10 / 2016 etc - because of wait for it (security concerns). Not the government with the biggest most bloated budgets available... I’m guessing taxpayers sunk billions into this voting software / hardware and it probably cost about the same as used Honda Civic with 250k miles and salvage title to roll out.
Edit to add: Back in the 1990s I heard a computer science professor point out that "If you're a student today there is COBOL code running right now that is older than you."
Can confirm. For the Y2K prep, I worked on cobol programs written in the late 60's. Beautiful program. Nobody knew what the hell it did. It had 10,000 lines of code and 2000 GOTO statements.
Hoe-lee carp! That must have looked like a bowl of spaghetti!
When I first started CDC still had FORTRAN-66 as the default compiler. My favorite test (it worked) was using a GOTO to RETURN from a subroutine. My favorite obscure error (it took me forever to find the cause) was "Inner loop not outer."
The FORTRAN 77 compiler reined in GOTO pranks a lot...
thennuclear missiles launch codes ran on cobal on 8 inch floppy disks until recently. it was extremely safe becuase very hard to hack or recreate or spoof that old tech.
I heard these machines were online and TOS violation of course. Also that they are running 7 or XP either are certified. None of this would shock me at this point. Embedded XP would have been so easily hacked and had machine logs retrieved at this point if they were truly being investigated prior. Maybe I’m in left field...
They're running Python with a GUI.
Python itself isn't an operating system, the Python program would have to be running on something.
The only system they're running is systemic fraud.
Someone needs to create a GUI interface using visual basic to track their IP address!
Geez wouldn’t surprise me - so no receipts then SMH ! So much for security practice then that’s the definition of western as in Wild West
DEPORT!!!
Your mother makes $64 a night blowing hobos behind the 7-11 dumpster.
And GA is the state where they had the last minute "update" to software that made some voting machines go down.
If I'm not mistaken, I heard if the machines are updated they're supposed to be recertified. So they were counting unvarifiable mail in ballots on uncertified tabulators, and we're just supposed to certify, because Orange Man Bad.
Yes any update requires re-certification.
Correct. I just don't get how they can certify it legally. Maybe they can't.
True ! The whole technology aspect of this system is cringe worthy from the sidelines anyway. Seems normal though for enterprise software sales. Take a few “decision makers” to lunch and golf receive the contract. Zero technical validation or security review.
"vaporware"
Posted 11 days ago:
GEORGIA: Last Minute Software Patch (Yup....Dominion)
https://thedonald.win/p/11PpPMFCvj/georgia-last-minute-software-pat/c/
Microsoft no longer supports Win7 XP wink wink, yet there are still thousands of State Federal computers running this sh1t. The frinking Social Security admin has COBAL code still................
That Cobol code may be the most secure code in the agencies.
Cuz no one knows how to write cobol so they can’t hack it
Facts ! 7 has been unsupported for what 2 years now ? Don’t even get me started on the rest running off 5.25 and backing up to tape. But yeah every “credible” publicly traded enterprise updated in the last couple years mandatory 10 / 2016 etc - because of wait for it (security concerns). Not the government with the biggest most bloated budgets available... I’m guessing taxpayers sunk billions into this voting software / hardware and it probably cost about the same as used Honda Civic with 250k miles and salvage title to roll out.
I mean, Linux would be so much better. They aren't using it as a computer, it should be the interface to the voting software and nothing else.
Yep, stripped down linux, netbsd or similar kernel with all the net drivers drivers stripped out.
*COBOL*
COmmon Business-Oriented Language
Edit to add: Back in the 1990s I heard a computer science professor point out that "If you're a student today there is COBOL code running right now that is older than you."
Can confirm. For the Y2K prep, I worked on cobol programs written in the late 60's. Beautiful program. Nobody knew what the hell it did. It had 10,000 lines of code and 2000 GOTO statements.
Hoe-lee carp! That must have looked like a bowl of spaghetti!
When I first started CDC still had FORTRAN-66 as the default compiler. My favorite test (it worked) was using a GOTO to RETURN from a subroutine. My favorite obscure error (it took me forever to find the cause) was "Inner loop not outer."
The FORTRAN 77 compiler reined in GOTO pranks a lot...
cobal is safer than most modern stuff.
thennuclear missiles launch codes ran on cobal on 8 inch floppy disks until recently. it was extremely safe becuase very hard to hack or recreate or spoof that old tech.
modern tech is easy to spoof.
yes its 100% confirmed they had internet access
Why do you think they named it Windows?