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mintscape 475 points ago +476 / -1

So happy the mods stickied this, hope someone important sees it.

What an absolute clown show Dominion are, even their own statements incriminate them further.

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errydaktal 205 points ago +205 / -0

I'm sure they'll post some more superficial statements 'explaining' it on their website hosted on their chinese webserver

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SnowflakeJuice 95 points ago +97 / -2

They had to say something or else it would have looked like an admission of guilt

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ThePlot2Steal2020 154 points ago +154 / -0

Dominion's claim lacks evidence, sworn affidavids, and statistical analysis.

It's a marketing piece.

America will never be a third world country. You're on our radar Communists.

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IvIA6A 64 points ago +64 / -0

I lol when they said they were the gold standard for transparent election systems

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WesternSky 6 points ago +6 / -0

Deport this guy

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Puglosi4Prison 15 points ago +15 / -0

Well they are the gold standard for dictators

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HillarysStrapOn 22 points ago +22 / -0

Chopper Pilot has entered the room

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Ghostof_PatrickHenry 10 points ago +10 / -0

I fucking love hunting Communists.

Let’s hunt every single one down, and throw them in jail.

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SvixGale 7 points ago +8 / -1

No jail.

No quarter.

No mercy.

If we leave any alive, they will just do this again in 2022 and 2024. If we let them steal this now, after 2024 we simply will no longer have elections in this country.

Just total, complete, outright communist control.

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deekarmy 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah no commies in jail. They get to have their citizenship stripped if any and deported to China.

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Necrovoter 46 points ago +46 / -0

A few of the huge customer data breaches at some giant companies were due to such thumb drive vulnerabilities. Another potential gaping hole with some companies is where they allow sub-contracting companies access without defining individual users access levels.

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iamjohnwick 34 points ago +34 / -0

thumb drive vulnerabilities

Seth Rich has entered the chat

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nutup_orshutup 29 points ago +29 / -0

Shit. Since we are talking thumb drives, I would investigate whether the Dominion OS allows for an OS boot off the thumb drive.

Just like running linux off a USB, you could create an entire untraceable election program on USB that deposits final riggered results on a mounted drive that is picked up later by the Dominion OS.

Or it loads into RAM which then disappears on Dominion reboot.

A million games you can play here if you can boot off USB.

Nothing like being root.

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iamjohnwick 2 points ago +2 / -0

The notion this is even possible on these machines is disgusting. These people are disgusting. No matter what happens, this shit has to end.

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CyrusKingOfAnshan 1 point ago +1 / -0

Generally you need a machine restart to boot.

Code execution on read or something could be done very easily though.

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nutup_orshutup 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yep. About 4 am maybe

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Haurboss 2 points ago +2 / -0

There was the video of a girl who showed she could gain admin access into a Dominon voting system in under 2 minutes

She simply popped the lock with a pen, turned it off, and when she turned it back on she had admin access

Im not tech savy so Im not sure if this is what you mean by Machine restart

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marishiten 0 points ago +1 / -1

No, I doubt that there is a boot off external media function. That's pretty easy to patch out in embedded systems.

The USB drives have to be mounted though to parse anything off or on them. SO you could load images that subvert that and re enable it. Normally, the images have to be in a specific format in a specific grouping for a boot from USB.

But again, it's pretty easy to disable that functionality in embedded systems (you usually disable that when you're compiling the image itself).

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nutup_orshutup 2 points ago +2 / -0

I have messed around a fair bit with bootable images myself. Who said they wanted to patch it out? :)

It would be a design feature, not a bug or unintentional vulnerability.

If this is a scenario at all, that is the most likely scenario with Dominion.

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PresidentElectNPC 6 points ago +6 / -0

Watch out they gonna send MS-13 after you

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PresidentElectNPC 7 points ago +7 / -0

No problem for Mr. Wick though

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rsnmike 21 points ago +21 / -0

Well, they are always free to file defamation suits against Powell, if they really wanna show us what is what.

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MuhSoy 5 points ago +5 / -0

BINGO

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Haurboss 1 point ago +1 / -0

If there was no rigging they would 100% file defamation lawsuits because Sydney Powell is killing their company. Nobody except for commies will want to use their systems anymore

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Dravous 20 points ago +20 / -0

"looked like" is better than "actually is"....but I guess they din't get that memo.

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StarsStripesandGrit 58 points ago +60 / -2

God has a sense of humor.

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CantStumpIWin 56 points ago +56 / -0

Yup. That was exactly the thought I had before scrolling down and reading your comment.

The fact that corrupt dingleberry is named COOMER still has me laughing.

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CloakAndDagger 19 points ago +19 / -0

He even has the bearded face and a cast on his arm!!! You can't make this shit up! It's the same with Jeffrey who was caught Toobin'!

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CantStumpIWin 14 points ago +14 / -0

people are still sleeping I can’t laugh like this 😂

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errydaktal 7 points ago +7 / -0

It's Eric and his boyfriend

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CantStumpIWin 5 points ago +5 / -0

If I woke up and saw them in my house I would throw things at them until they got out.

Kind of like how the gang salts the snail.

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eastern-truman 1 point ago +1 / -0

So this is the source. I've always wondered if Coomer is just a combination between cum and boomer.

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SomeoneInHouston 3 points ago +3 / -0

Pronounced 'Cummer'.

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StarsStripesandGrit 14 points ago +15 / -1

A man ahead of his time.

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Keln 6 points ago +6 / -0

He truly does.

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Squee_ 26 points ago +26 / -0

Expecting these clowns to not defend themselves is not realistic.

Regardless of what they say, the fact that they have not made a statement until now comboed with the lack of counter legal action shows that Dominion is fucked.

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Squee_ 17 points ago +17 / -0

Exactly. This shit is designed to be bandied about as evidence of innicence by CNN (the complicit news network), and the rest of the media

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catch-a-penny 2 points ago +2 / -0

Complicit News Network

Name checks out.

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Bidensbrain2020 17 points ago +17 / -0

Autorun ftw! Insecure by design

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cyberspace_cowboy 12 points ago +12 / -0

That was my question when reading this...is it just autoruns enabled or does it actually execute or attempt to execute all executable's on the USB once inserted..?

Either would be an unacceptable risk. All it would take is a nation state/APT to obtain/exfil the Dominion ICX sources code, then develop an exploit based off that. Have a few insider threats (poll workers, election officials, vendors or voters) in key counties pop that puppy in and voila - their choice candidate wins.

Also what's to say adversaries or insider threats couldn't implant an exploit on the USB's in mass then hand the out?..Weren't a bunch stolen from some location in PA? So much shittery afoot.

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Bidensbrain2020 7 points ago +7 / -0

Still, the fact that this totally obvious vulnerability was present suggests nobody using these machines made even a basic good faith test of security.

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TheEmperorProtects 9 points ago +9 / -0

Or they had no interest in making the machine secure. I find it hard to believe anyone could accidentally leave holes like this in a system that’s supposed to be secure

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Bidensbrain2020 6 points ago +6 / -0

I'm sure the adversaries have full access to machines and possibly source code since selling elections seems to be dominion's business model.

I think I saw somewhere they run win 7 which I think has autorun set to require user confirmation by default although I would not trust that it actually works that way. It sounds like they have it set up to disable confirmation though.

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crazychicken132 3 points ago +3 / -0

From the way it’s worded definitely Autorun, the hardware probably supports boot from USB too, it has been a common feature now for the last 10 years on consumer hardware. So I would assume with the level of carelessness used elsewhere in the product that they didn’t disable it at the very least, or they use it to update and program the machines.

And yea, 47 if I remember right went missing and a laptop with the encryption keys for the tally system disappeared too.

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marishiten 2 points ago +2 / -0

If I recall, these machines use some sort of variant of Android. So an embedded Linux OS. Before you compile the image to run on the hardware, you can comment out booting from USB functionality. NORMALLY you don't want to do this because if the image bricks, the hardware can't be recovered (unless you have a bed of nails), but that is an avenue available to developers.

You can also try to stop hackers/exploiters by modifying what the pre boot environment will accept as a bootable image and the file structure and placement.

I'd be fucking blown away if they allowed a boot from USB functionality in these machines. Normally, with embedded systems that are locked down due to IP, you push updates via internet. A standard user of the machine should have all of zero access to any of the file system. Users like root should have a hashed as fuck key that uses the serial number of the machine to create a unique root key from. You can't remove sudo, but other groups/users should be HEAVILY restricted from being able to even see properties or functionality. Admin/technician users/groups should have a bit more visibility. There's no reason for machines like this and what they're intended for to have elevated permissions.

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marishiten 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'd imagine that the OS scrapes the drive for a specific extension and then attempts to execute it. Just like Autorun does with .exe. What that extension is, we don't know unless we get internal white papers, decompiled source, or the source itself.

I'd love to get an image of these machines though and start reverse engineering this shit.

I don't think that a program was developed to exploit these machines. I think they left the door open on purpose so the average retard can exploit it with little direction. This creates a plausible deniability for the company as being 'incompetent' and it decentralizes the fraud so there's no one you can point to and say 'you coached these people on how to do this. If you don't tell us who is behind it all, you're going to take the fall.'

The hardest part with proving a criminal fraud case of this scope is finding the ringleader. But if you keep everyone stupid and 'incompetent', it makes it much safer (from the perps standpoint).

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fponick 3 points ago +3 / -0

Well worth reading. Discrepancies and vulnerability info, pg 8-11. Thanks!

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truebro 253 points ago +255 / -2

This line basically admits these voting machines have ZERO SECURITY...

"Potentially, whenever a USB drive is inserted into the ICX machine it is automatically loaded, without a security check of the contents. This could mean that regardless of what is on that thumb drive it will be read and if an ".exe" file exists, it will be run."

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CantStumpIWin 182 points ago +182 / -0

Holy shit

“it will be run”

Anyone being honest with themselves has to realize how fucking huge this is. Parties don’t matter anymore. You either love America and freedom or don’t.

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DrVeryStableGEOTUS 45 points ago +45 / -0

All leftists needed to hear was it was reviewed by NIST. They will drown out the rest. They truly deserve to live in communist shitholes.

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CantStumpIWin 5 points ago +5 / -0

I get what you’re saying but a lot of people that mean well are brainwashed by the fake news.

I already know people who hated President Trump saying this election was a fraud.

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innominata 74 points ago +74 / -0

10percentforthebigguy.exe

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ButAtLeastWeDontHave 36 points ago +36 / -0

switchTrumpVotesToBiden.exe

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alexnader 22 points ago +22 / -0

Swap_VOTS_FROM_BIDEN_TO_TRUMP.EXE

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grenades_and_ham 12 points ago +12 / -0

Hunter_Smokes_Crack_Footjob_By_Niece.exe

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Jojobelle 7 points ago +7 / -0

Billclintonisarapist.infowars.com

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CreepyJoesOldBalls 6 points ago +6 / -0

AOHell.exe

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Timmy100 4 points ago +4 / -0

25percentforme_fuckthebigguy.exe

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arandoperosn 67 points ago +67 / -0

That's negative security. That means anyone who puts in a USB stick with a malicious .exe file can run that app without it looking like they are doing anything. That vulnerability can only be intentional and for fraud.

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PraetorAngel 23 points ago +23 / -0

Yeah this. Someone can always pop the motherboard battery out to reset CMOS, then boot a live distro. But automatically executing a usb drive... that’s gotta be intentional.

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based_female_in_tech 5 points ago +5 / -0

Yeah, especially having no checks in place at all. I/O Security 101: make sure the inputs are clean.

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HandOfDonaldo 24 points ago +24 / -0

BUT IT'S THE MOST SECURE ELECTION OF ALL TIMES, ALL COUNTRIES AND ALL DIMENSIONS!!! DO NOT QUESTION IT, PEASANT!!

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intoseaodb 11 points ago +11 / -0

"ICX play THANE.exe"

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stabbingmandrill 3 points ago +3 / -0

You linked to the wrong report. The one in the screenshot is from testing done for the State of California. It can be found by searching for Document No. DOM-17002-CSTR-01 (link below)

https://votingsystems.cdn.sos.ca.gov/vendors/dominion/ds52-sc.pdf

The one you linked is for a different test with different testing parameters that didn't include the same vulnerability testing or assessments. There are a number of these test reports available, but it is important to note the scope of the tests conducted when comparing them to each other.

Note that despite the vulnerabilities reported, the California Secretary of State’s Office of Voting Systems Technology Assessment released a report that gave the following conclusion.

The Dominion Democracy Suite 5.2 voting system, in the configuration tested and documented by the Installation and Use Procedures, meets all applicable California Voting System Standards and Elections Code requirements.

(source)

https://votingsystems.cdn.sos.ca.gov/vendors/dominion/ds52-staffreport.pdf

This report also mentions the vulnerabilities, so they knew what they were approving for use there.

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airgag 4 points ago +4 / -0

PA review of 5.5A

https://i-uv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dominion-Democracy-Suite-Final-Report-scanned-with-signature-020119.pdf

See the "Security Testing" section

The Department of State in consultation with the Security Examiner decided that the test approach must include only validating the documentation updates to ensure secure implementation of the system components, since the isolated code changes did not affect the security aspects of the system.

Texas report of 5.5A:

https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-hurley.pdf

"As was the case with THE 5.5 System, Some of the hardware in the Democracy 5.5-A System can be connected to the internet through Ethernet ports."

"The problems with the adjudication portion of the tabulation process in the 5.5 System were dismissed by Dominion officials as a “bad path”; however, Dominion never showed why the bad path occurred or how it could be avoided end users. "

"The build and installation process problems suggest that the 5.5-A System is complicated and may not be easily built and installed by the end-users."

"Without question, one or more of the components of the 5.5-A System can be connected to an external communication network and this can only be avoided if the end-user takes the proper precautions to prevent such a connection."

https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-mechler.pdf

Conclusions:

"Complexity and fragility of the EMS installation process"

"Inability to gracefully recover from a crash of Adjudication Services (no crashes were witnessed in this exam, but this EMS software component is identical to the one in D-Suite 5.5)"

"Easily cracked PIN onTechnician iButton key"

https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-pinney.pdf

"The installation process for the EMS software (including Adjudication) is incredibly complicated and is not intuitive for the user. "

"The system required the technician to manually install every component of the system (including individual system fonts) in a very specific order, but the design of the installer makes this a fairly confusing process for the technician. "

"After the first few failures, the vendor chose to wipe the software and operating system off the server system and conduct a full reinstallation of the Windows operating system and EMS software. The installation failed again one more time after the full reinstallation, but succeeded on the second attempt .... The vendor stated that this installation error occurred because a reboot step was skipped in the initial installation." :D

"The ImageCast Precinct (ICP) has a few concerning issues. The firmware is installed using a 1 character pin code along with a physical technician key"

https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-sneeringer.pdf

" The ICX ballot-marking device has an indicator light on top to show poll workers when the station is in use. That light is connected by a USB port. When Brian Mechler’s phone was attached to the USB port, the ICX scanned the files on his phone and did not complain, although Dominion later showed that the event was logged. When a USB drive with files was inserted, the ICX sometimes complained and sometimes did not, apparently according to the content of the USB drive and whether it was present when the ICX was first powered up or inserted later"

https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/oct2019-watson.pdf

"The ethernetport is active on the ICX BMD during an election. It should be disabledwhen the machineis put into voting mode by the poll worker.This is an unnecessaryopen port during the voting period and could be used as an attack vector."

"Substantialtraining is essentialto successfuloperationof the system.Dominionstated that training is customizedfor each customer. The Dominion experts had difficulty operating the systemat times"

"However,when a secondUSB drive was insertedinto the ICX BMD, it was not logged.It was explained that the seconddrive would not be read by the softwareand thereforewas not a risk of infectingthe machine.The secondUSB drive may be ignoredby the election software,but a non-DVSdrive shouldnot be allowedas the disk could containa rogue programthat could access the election files directly."

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miyamoto 2 points ago +2 / -0

this document is different from the document in the screenshot, the one from the screenshot is 5.2, this is 5.5.

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newchina 119 points ago +119 / -0

WE’VE BEEN USING ELECTRONIC VOTING SINCE BUSH AND WE’RE JUST NOW REALIZING HOW VULNERABLE IT IS?!? SMH!

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Cincinattus1776 85 points ago +85 / -0

Fucking Canada, the country where Dominion's HQ is, DOESN'T FUCKING USE THEM EITH!

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Mashiki 32 points ago +32 / -0

Things are a bit different up here too. Federal elections and how it's run is determined at the federal level. Though many provinces use scantron or similar for provincial elections, county/city elections.

And the major political parties(Liberals/Conservatives/NDP/Greens) all use the dominion machines for party leadership races. There's also been some serious fuckery with those tho.

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Mashiki 15 points ago +15 / -0

Truth man. I'm a Mad Max supporter, and PPC founding member for a reason.

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intoseaodb 8 points ago +8 / -0

And Cucknada is as such that only a mere week of MSM xenospin sufficed to destroy Bernier's chances.

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M25WhiteFeather 3 points ago +3 / -0

Federal? I thought you guys were a unitary state?

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Mashiki 6 points ago +6 / -0

Yes and no. Canada is like the US, but not the US in terms of division of powers. While each US state can be considered it's own country under the republic. Canada follows both the US and European model, with each province having powers akin to US states - but not those that would be granted in Europe.

We have a unified criminal code akin to Europe. But there are no provincial indictable offences(felonies), there are summery conviction offences(misdemeanors) at both the federal and provincial level. So to compare let's say with pot legalization, in Canada the provinces can't say "yea it's legal here." Only the feds can say "it's legal here." While in the US you can see "yeah it's legal and still illegal" in the same state at two different levels of power.

Nearly the entire political system in Canada is because of the US. The crown "didn't want to let Canada go" and afforded things not seen in other colonies at the time. Likely because in the early 1800s, Canada nearly went all-in on a US style revolt against the crown. The only reason why it failed is because of crown loyalists in the US, who sold Canadians guns and sold who they were selling them to -- to the crown, in exchange for land or positions of power in Canada itself.

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geocitiesuser 5 points ago +5 / -0

EU is not a country. It is a german european takeover that sovereign nations are desperate to escape

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Mashiki 1 point ago +1 / -0

Didn't say EU. I said Europe, and when I said that I meant specifically at the period of time when upper and lower canada were still a thing, I just didn't convey that very well.

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M25WhiteFeather 4 points ago +4 / -0

Ah. Sri Lankan here. We're unitary with provinces. So I thought it worked the same way, considering you guys were a Crown subject at some point like us.

Hope you guys get rid og Fraudeau. That guy is annoying.

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Mashiki 1 point ago +1 / -0

Canada has that. For example, the feds can't assign how counties are made, provincial voting, how elections are done, how divisions on roads, education, etc are all designated. How provincial judges are assigned, how many jails to have, etc. Only the provinces themselves can do that. Ontario and Quebec for example, are the only two provinces which have state sponsored religious schools(catholic) - these are all guaranteed as involatile and can't be revoked. It would require the renegotiation between all provinces and territories.

Here's another example, there is no protected free trade between provinces in Canada. That's not a federal issue, it's a provincial one. Though the federal government most often are the ones enforcing those laws on behalf of the province.

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VilBarv 1 point ago +1 / -0

Interesting that all my neutral posts about Canadian political system have been systematically deleted.

This shit is worse than reddit.

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Mashiki 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's because you're new. You should expect that.

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IntrepidBurger 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sorta true. They use them in a couple of provincial elections including Ontario where they're headquartered.

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Killshot1776 11 points ago +11 / -0

Tech is actually death

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M25WhiteFeather 2 points ago +2 / -0

Work for tech. Can confirm.

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FuckNewsom 1 point ago +1 / -0

This is the first election in 38 years that the GOP has been allowed to contest. We had to sit with our hands tied while rigged elections stuck us with Obama and a bunch of commie governors. https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/end-of-1982-consent-decree-gop-finally-can-contest-vote-fraud-after-36-years/

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HKFan 9 points ago +9 / -0

We've realized it since then but only since 2016 has there been a non-uniparty choice to fight for. I mean, who gives it shit if it's Bush or Kerry, Obama or Delecto.

Other than minor issues there really would be zero difference

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AussieTrumpFan 1 point ago +1 / -0

No. There's been a small but vocal group of IT security guys complaining about this sort of stuff since Sequoia was a dream and Diebold only made ATMs.

The only problem has been convincing enough people who matter of the importance of what they had to say.

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Mashiki 36 points ago +37 / -1

Oh just wait, I'm sure we'll find out there's something even worse. Like having open wifi, bluetooth, IR, or something else in terms of access.

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Regardless 28 points ago +28 / -0

Root’s password is still toor.

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Mashiki 24 points ago +24 / -0

L/P: Admin/Admin

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imatrumper 4 points ago +4 / -0

Connecting to any of their databases Root/Root

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M25WhiteFeather 18 points ago +18 / -0

Looks like Windows shit if plugging a USB makes an .exe run.

Sounds like Autorun.

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Bappi 15 points ago +15 / -0

I’m pretty sure you’re right. Rudy confirmed in that big presser he did with Sydney Powell last week that all the systems run windows. I could be wrong but I am recalling he said that.

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M25WhiteFeather 14 points ago +14 / -0

Here's to Gates gets his ass bisected.

Long-time coming after what he did to Gary Kildall.

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MisterClinton 5 points ago +5 / -0

Pretty sure Windows 7 and later releases (and probably Vista as well), in vanilla status with default security settings, would not simply execute an AutoRun, and instead ask the user to choose an action, with the AutoRun being one of them.

Sounds like they are either running an outdated and unsupported OS, or intentionally disabling basic security features.

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Prussian_Pepe 6 points ago +6 / -0

It's been said like 90% of them have SCORECARD infected in them, which is basically a keylogger that sends the access credentials to where-ever the hell they want it to.

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IntrepidBurger 3 points ago +3 / -0

That would even be more secure. It's like having an open Dropbox container linked to the root of your main device called "Upload viruses here"

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innominata 21 points ago +21 / -0

I dunno how much deader we can be at this point. Anyone who has read the manual suffered internal decapitation from shaking their head too much

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Fabian 3 points ago +3 / -0

Where can I find the manual?

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DrVeryStableGEOTUS 19 points ago +19 / -0

The amount of regulations thrust upon my job from the federal government makes it almost impossible to work. Yet when it comes to voting they seem to truly not give a shit.

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FaustyArchaeus 11 points ago +11 / -0

I am sick of Computers and the people who use them. I am looking at taking up horticulture and landscaping.

Computers were fun with Commodores and Amigas. Early PCs fucking around with overclocking with pencils.

I have installed too many servers and set up too many networks to ever do it again.. And no fuck coding.. Always loved hardware and networks.

Sorry drunk ramble

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geocitiesuser 11 points ago +11 / -0

When you figure out where aging programmers go to escape the machine, let me know!

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GnuYow 2 points ago +2 / -0

Me too. Sometimes I find myself wishing the tech had frozen in time in about the mid-80's and I could have spent my career doing that.

Lately I've been thinking that when I retire I may not want anything to do with computers or cell phones ever again.

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geocitiesuser 4 points ago +4 / -0

I don't think we're alone. My love for computers began as an interest in video game programming in the 80s. By the time I got into college, video game programming was relegated to either slave monkey status clicking around in UX, or being a big brain autist that actually writes the engines. It's not even close to what it was.

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cherryred 0 points ago +1 / -1

What would be the middle ground of that? How did you want to make games without building the engines or using existing ones?

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geocitiesuser 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's a good question, and part of why my interest in it kind of fizzled away. It's definitely not what it was in the 80s lol.

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Ihatecommies1776 3 points ago +3 / -0

Ted Kaczynski was on to something.

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FaustyArchaeus 5 points ago +5 / -0

He was an anarchist. I want to be productive but not computers. Looking into something outdoors

I spent my life working for Cisco and early dotcom days Worldcom

Now I want to grow some food and get the fuck out of the city. Live with people who are like minded.

Fuck this left wing leftist shit city. Melbourne Australia is the worst place ever if you have an original thought of your own

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Scroon 4 points ago +4 / -0

Have you read Kaczynski's manifesto? He is incredibly on point before he starts talking about blowing everything up.

Great analysis, terrible conclusions.

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FaustyArchaeus 3 points ago +3 / -0

No I have not

Just flicked through some points then so I have a very small grasp on it

Seemed like he was well reasoned and smart. Tried to make a statement so people would understand. I dont agree with all his points as I am not against the industrial revolution but I am against moving all money to top industries

Currently under covid why can large shops be open like CostCo and my local Coffee shop is force to close down. 10 people in a shop is illegal but 200 in anoheer is ok

I see covid as just a way to bring on communism and force money to the top and fuck the rest of us over

Sorry went off topic

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HillarysBeaverMunch 1 point ago +1 / -0

He may have been a famous serial murderer, too, still unsolved!

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GnuYow 3 points ago +3 / -0

Yep, here's me about to start my PCI assessment work for 2021, after spending a year overhauling the company security due to a ransomware attack. This, especially in 2020, is one of the worst security violations I've ever heard of and they had to have done it on purpose.

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alexnader 39 points ago +39 / -0

According to the latest polls, Dominion were voted least likely to be idiots!

poll results provided by today's sponsor Dominion Voting

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Darth653 13 points ago +13 / -0

tracking shows that the poll was heavily leaning towards A (idiots) but in early hours of the morning just enough votes for B (not idiots) were found.

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MrCuriousGuy513 12 points ago +12 / -0

I’m curious, what was the sampling pool they used for their own poll?

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alexnader 17 points ago +17 / -0

computing

9 billion votes, all registered to some office in Canada.

Very enthusiastic response, obviously.

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SJWsHateUs 80 points ago +81 / -1

No cease and desist letter from Dominion. Only BS statements with no supporting evidence. These people are fucked.

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Mcdaguc 55 points ago +56 / -1

Reports of machines getting updates after being certified.. some running older versions than others. This frens is how one shoots themselves in the foot!

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Brainspore 27 points ago +27 / -0

Windows 98 did that with CDs

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weltbild 24 points ago +24 / -0

to make it as responsive to last minute on site "fixes" as possible

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alexnader 21 points ago +21 / -0

"Woops, I dropped my monster USB, that I use for my magnum Voting Machine"

-Dominon employee

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LiberalismIsTheVirus 6 points ago +6 / -0

Dr. Mantis Coomer

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Syntyche 21 points ago +21 / -0

This software was purposefully designed to be vulnerable with the intent of rigging elections. No one in their right mind would design software to do that other wise.

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cyberspace_cowboy 8 points ago +8 / -0

Not sure if they're referencing "autorun" which the vendor could created an autorun.inf file that loads * exe's once a usb is inserted.

Although insecure, this would make sense if the usb's were used for updates. The non-tech savvy election official gets a USB and is told to simply insert into the Dominion machine and it'll automatically apply updates aka autorun *.exe.

What if a few of these USB's were stolen to reverse engineer the updates (or just stolen to implant exploits!), then exploits implanted on intercepted USB's in supply route or by insider handlers?

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Scroon 2 points ago +2 / -0

The amount of sense that makes is vastly overwhelmed by the stupidity of it.

A non-tech person making a tech update on legally sensitive equipment? Giving a monkey a machine gun comes to mind.

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Mendicant 4 points ago +5 / -1

My assumption is that there is no interface on the device for executing files so as a shortcut they made it so that any file on an inserted drive runs automatically

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zerosmokescreen 38 points ago +38 / -0

Btw, ever since they skipped that hearing and sent a representative to talk on the news...

It was clear they would use "human error" as their ultimate scapegoat.

After all this is the cabal of plausible deniability we are talking about.

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Wtf_socialismreally 26 points ago +26 / -0

We need to stop accepting human error for criminal offenses.

We need accountability. Ignorance is not a defense against the law. At least, it isn't for the peasantry.

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1st10RtheBill0Rights 17 points ago +17 / -0

Those who got caught cheating vehicle emissions tests tried to blame “rouge engineers”. Didn’t work for them. Shouldn’t work for Dominion.

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Scroon 2 points ago +2 / -0

Criminal negligence should apply to cases like these. If you built a bridge so badly that people died, you'd be held accountable. Our elections are more important than bridges.

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MAGA_Flocka_Flame 15 points ago +15 / -0

Human error 160,000 times in a row in multiple states all at 4:00 am

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BajoPivljanin 8 points ago +8 / -0

Human error = poorly designed machine

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zerosmokescreen 4 points ago +4 / -0

Well-designed machine mitigates risk with "human error" vulnerabilities

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BajoPivljanin 1 point ago +1 / -0

When the leftists design...

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Regardless 36 points ago +36 / -0

USB ports on any computer is a vulnerability.

Why Dominion has them at all and why they are not protected better are both great questions.

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Wtf_socialismreally 38 points ago +39 / -1

I'll give you a secret: SOME port has to exist in order to update it, or it has to be connected to the internet.

Neither of these options are actually fit nor do they stand up to scrutiny when it comes to a fucking election.

Paper ballots, hand counting, observers from both parties. If anyone objects to observers, they need to be removed from the counting process entirely and blacklisted from ever assisting.

No machines.

Also, yes: USB is a vulnerability in every way. If you get physical access to someone's computer, you will be able to gain access some way or another.

Physically it isn't safe either, as USB killers do a good job of what their name implies.

Ports are a vulnerability. Physical access is a vulnerability. Machines in an election is a vulnerability.

Out, out, out.

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Regardless 13 points ago +13 / -0

You could have a serial port like some servers do which would require a specific cable and another computer to connect to it. That would be more secure than USB.

You also could have the votes, any updates, and the results all hashed so you’d know if they were tampered with. You could also assign unique keys to each person that had to do work on the machine and every action of theirs is logged as well as any update to the system or the votes would bear their unique key.

Personally I think the machines should just take a stack of ballots and try to read them and report the results of a given stack. If there are ballots that can’t be read by the machine then they get set aside and are counted by hand l, not changed in the machine, and added to the total.

The software should also be open sourced. A hash of the system should be made and then publicized to let voters know when something has been updated. Each machine would have its own unique code indicating that nothing has been tampered with.

An electronic vote tallying system can be made and secured. The problem is the corruption of government officials and companies manufacturing this equipment.

Hell, if we get voter ID laws, you could have a unique key for each voter on their card and when they vote, their vote is encrypted and stored. Voters could go back and verify their vote was recorded and unaltered whenever they felt like it. Their would be no way to know how someone voted, which would be good information to hide from traitors wanting to steal an election.

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geocitiesuser 6 points ago +6 / -0

I made similar arguments for a federal open source system overseen by committee and fully transparent, but no one else but us seems to understand how this stuff works we need a few programmers to run for office.

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borscht-nazi 2 points ago +2 / -0

>we need a few programmers to run for office

Working on it.

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geocitiesuser 2 points ago +2 / -0

Wait till they dig up your user name on thedonald lol

I met one representative who was a programmer (town council?!? Something small, not sure), but he was ultra lib. It would be good if MSM would stop hiding the fact that there are conservative "computer people"

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borscht-nazi 1 point ago +1 / -0

Tbf, there aren't very many conservative "computer people", sadly. At least in places where I have spent most of my career.

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geocitiesuser 1 point ago +1 / -0

We hide in the shadows, because as you're well aware, any prominent developer who is openly conservative, will be sidelined out of their career. It's horrible. Remember what they did to the guy at Google for saying there is two genders?

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innominata 13 points ago +13 / -0

I could create a system in an month that would be impervious to all these exploits, and I'm a fucking glazier. With 30 years of hobbyist electronics/pc/programming experience but still...at least put it in a fucking locked box ffs. WITH A REAL LOCK.

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doug2 7 points ago +7 / -0

And who has the key

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M25WhiteFeather 6 points ago +6 / -0

Asking the real questions here.

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geocitiesuser 2 points ago +2 / -0

Donna braizelle

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innominata 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nobody, the lock shackle is a vial of thioacetone epoxied in, and has to be broken open to gain access. Outside, while wearing a full hazmat suit.

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doug2 1 point ago +1 / -0

You're kidding, right?

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innominata 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah, but it would be pretty hard to bypass inside. Thioacetone absolutely stinks.

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BajoPivljanin 30 points ago +30 / -0

I'm from Serbia and I'm not proud saying this: BUT WE ARE EXTREMELY CORUPTABLE PEOPLE since forever, since the Ottoman rule.

There were about 50 of about total of 250 employees who worked for Dominion in Belgrade.

I would be absolutely surprised to find out that they knew nothing.

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skimster 6 points ago +6 / -0

Wonder if alphabet agencies are pressuring those guys... If there is a patriot left in those agencies, that is.

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doug2 9 points ago +9 / -0

Bahahahahhahahah

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grenades_and_ham 28 points ago +28 / -0

Level of acces to vulnerabilities:

Voter, poll worker, election official, or vendor.

Translation - Any fuckin Joe.

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Regardless 8 points ago +8 / -0

Except Biden. I doubt he could do it with written out step by step instructions.

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Sealith 2 points ago +2 / -0

Voter

Right there is the majority of the country

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Rhayne 28 points ago +30 / -2

Checkmate cunts.

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DelveDeeper 21 points ago +21 / -0

They know they're fucked.

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SlingBlade 21 points ago +21 / -0

BIGLY YUUUGE!

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HoLeeFuk 20 points ago +20 / -0

whenever a USB drive is inserted to an ICX machine it is automatically loaded, without a security check of the contents. This could mean that regardless of what is on that thumb drive it will be read and if an ".exe" exists, it will be run.

This HUGE! ".exe" is computer nerd for executable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.exe

Every single modern Operating System i can think of does NOT automatically load anything on USB drives by default. They also most definitely DO NOT automatically run .exe files present on USB drives either. This is a gigantic security vulnerability, and has been publicly known to be a computer security vulnerability since at least Windows XP. Windows stopped loading USB drives by default with an update during Windows XP. This is why Windows asks you what you want to do with a new drive you plugged in via USB. If these voting machines are running ".exe" files (which is in quotes for a reason in this document) that means it is based on the Windows Operating System.

They had to deliberately program the Windows Operating System to automatically load USB drives and run .exe files by default. Whoever owns the machines would have access to the underlying Operating System. Therefore it would not be necessary for the Operating System to load USB drives by default. Especially not .exe files.

I hope the lawyers have a copy of this. This is actually a bombshell. These machines were set up by default to be fucked with by anybody with access to the USB port. It runs USB drives and .exe files by default so that you can run an .exe without interacting with the screen. This is just very basic computer security 101.

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geocitiesuser 2 points ago +2 / -0

Windows 10🤢

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bluebahloo 19 points ago +19 / -0

So you just stick a USB device into the port and it automatically fills the machine with shit with no security whatsoever? Retarded.

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Cincinattus1776 18 points ago +18 / -0

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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skimster 13 points ago +13 / -0

Huge. Covering their butts by throwing the election under the bus. They can't see a way out so admitting to vulnerability that they can weasle their way out of while forcing the responsibility onto the election committees.

Now talk about fractional voting. Why the hell do you have that Dominion? This would be considered a major showstopper on any responsible software for election vote tracking.

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RedTX 12 points ago +12 / -0

Keep that shit the hell out of The United States! Texas already told those assholes to fuck off!

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BlightBane 11 points ago +11 / -0

Archive EVERYTHING!

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Isolated_Patriot 11 points ago +11 / -0

As per the direction by the California Secretary of State, this software report does not include any recommendation as to whether or not the system should be approved.

Sketchy af. Since we know it did get approved, that basically admits they intended to approve it no matter the results of this report.

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RC22 9 points ago +9 / -0

Exhibit 105 from King vs Whitmer filed by Sidney Wednesday night

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.1.15.pdf

The Real Kraken

China and Iran had direct connections to edison and dominion servers PROVIDED CONNECTIONS NOT HACKED CONNECTIONS "Inputting the Iranian IP into Robtex confirms the direct connection into the “edisonresearch” host from the perspective of the Iranian domain also. This means that it is not possible that the connection was a unidirectional reference."

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SomeoneInHouston 1 point ago +1 / -0

Cummerbund.. hardwired.

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SomeoneInHouston 1 point ago +1 / -0

Does it give the speed of the connection?

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TheJimmReaper 9 points ago +9 / -0

The Dominion statement is like a bank robber telling you banks are the safest place to store your money

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weltbild 6 points ago +6 / -0

we left the vault wide open but you can't prove we did it on purpose

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TheJimmReaper 4 points ago +4 / -0

Despite the video and documented evidence of us talking about leaving the vault open

You still can't prove it was intentional

Plausible Deniability

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chieflemons 8 points ago +8 / -0

SOMEONE MAKE COPIES OF THEIR STATEMENT BEFORE THEY TAKE IT DOWN

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innominata 3 points ago +3 / -0

it's been done.

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Wishiwastrumpswife 7 points ago +7 / -0

That explains the 47 missing USBs...

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SomeoneInHouston 1 point ago +1 / -0

Got to find the folks handling each stick and put them under oath with the threat of guillotine.

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TowerLake 6 points ago +6 / -0

Someone archive and send to Sydney Powell

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leakmouth 2 points ago +2 / -0

IM SURE SHE’S ON IT BUT PLEASE SOMEONE CONFIRM THAT THIS GETS DONE

-curious pede observing from the sidelines

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manwithasham 6 points ago +6 / -0

69 discrepancies! I give this report a rating of 420 Jerry Nadler wobbles

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mjmcwilliams 5 points ago +5 / -0

You're not supposed to actually READ the linked documents, Citizen. That is for the MSM. They'll tell you if they think you need to know something.

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Puglosi4Prison 1 point ago +1 / -0

This software testing was clearly done by Mr Ray Ciss

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TrumpTrainNov3 5 points ago +5 / -0

What an absolute shame, disgrace, and embarrassment that our country ever allowed this system or any system quite frankly that is not 100% secure. If banks can protect their money, how can we not protect every vote?

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Bedminster 5 points ago +5 / -0

Dominion fags sweating like pigs they are right now. We will not be a 3rd world shit hole.

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ProdigalPlaneswalker 1 point ago +1 / -0

In 2020, never attribute to incompetence that which can be explained by malice.

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GnuYow 5 points ago +5 / -0

Many people in this thread have said the same, but as an IT professional for over 20 years, this could not be a more monumental flaw. I can't get over how bad this is.

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IntrepidBurger 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's a Windows based device that auto-loads any exe it sees? That's is the most hilariously poor security I've ever heard of. You might as well scan for files called "virus.exe" and try to run them it's that bad.

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intoseaodb 4 points ago +4 / -0

Globalists promised a Great Reset and all they muster is a Soft Reboot. Over budget, behind schedule as always!

TRUMP UNIQUE LANDSLIDE 2020

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SoldierofKek 4 points ago +4 / -0

This is what that call an "own goal" in hockey.

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gamadammit 4 points ago +4 / -0

They are not sending their best folks.

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leakmouth 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ackchyually, they are

Just look at their candidate

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pepperconchobhar 4 points ago +5 / -1

I need a little help. I'm looking and LOOKING at the Dominion statement and I can't find anywhere that ^this^ is referenced. Did they reference this directly in this statement?

How does this report link to their statement?

(If I'm reading the title wrong, somebody straighten me out. It's 4:30AM and I just crawled out of bed.)

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SixTree 3 points ago +3 / -0

I found it, I think, there is a direct link. Dominion's statement links to the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, SLI is a member of the council.

Who else is a member? LOL Dominion themselves, same with Smartmatic, and SCYTL... associated press, Amazon, etc. These corrupt trash "verify" their own integrity under the umbrella of Homeland Security.

The swamp runs deep

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pepperconchobhar 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's like finding out that the 'fact checking' agencies have formed their own official fact checking body to certify that THEY are the authoritative sources for facts.

And that's run by an ex-CNN employee. smh

This is where we suck. You'll never see right-biased people put together something like that. And it is actually kind of smart.

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SixTree 3 points ago +3 / -0

To be fair, I do not see a direct reference to this specific report. I do see (and I am paraphrasing here) a metric ton of BS about super independent official bipartisan testing and review that is super trustworthy and blah blah from Dominion. This rips a hole right through it.

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pepperconchobhar 1 point ago +1 / -0

I love you guys so much! kek

Now I can share it and it's irrefutable.

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haolecoder 1 point ago +2 / -1

I had the same thought. I’m not sure how this is “HUGE” or related to the Dominion statement.

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pepperconchobhar 2 points ago +2 / -0

This is why I love pedes. You put out your questions and usually someone has the answer. If you look at the responses to my post, we have all the answers we need now. And a link to the actual info at a .gov website.

We're an awesome community.

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OliverSmith 3 points ago +3 / -0

strcmp? These guys use C++?

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socially_reluctant 2 points ago +2 / -0

Or C. Back in 2000, I heard that strncmp is preferred to prevent going out of bounds.

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zooty 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yeah, C++ Has the String class. strncmp is better than strcmp but not by much.

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Biden_Sniffs_Kids 3 points ago +3 / -0

cucked their self's

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Lupinfujiko 3 points ago +3 / -0

Dominion: "Election Interference is Impossible!"

Also Dominion: "Well, okay. There's a hack with a USB key that literally anyone can put into the machine."

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Pederella 3 points ago +3 / -0

insert flaming dumpster gif here

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Reporter223 3 points ago +3 / -0

check this for Georgia which used Democracy D-Suite 5.5-A https://sos.ga.gov/admin/uploads/Dominion_Test_Cert_Report.pdf

Thoughts??

Summary Findings The D-Suite 5.5-A system successfully passed the Accuracy Test. It was noted during test performance that the ICP under test experienced a memory lockup after scanning approximately 4500 ballots. The issue was presented to Dominion for resolution. Dominion provided the following analysis of the issue: The ICP uClinux operating system does not have a memory management unit (MMU) and, as such, it can be susceptible to memory fragmentation. The memory allocation services within the ICP application are designed to minimize the effects of memory fragmentation. However, if the ICP scans a large number of ballots (over 4000), without any power cycle, it can experience a situation where the allocation of a large amount of memory can fail at the Operating System level due to memory fragmentation across the RAM. This situation produces an error message on the ICP which requires the Poll Worker to power cycle the unit, as documented. Once restarted, the ICP can continue processing ballots without issue. All ballots scanned and counted prior to the power cycle are still retained by the unit; there is no loss in data. Pro V&V performed a power cycle, as instructed by Dominion, and verified that the issue was resolved and that the total ballot count was correct. Scanning then resumed with no additional issues noted. A total of 1,569,640 voting positions were processed on the system with all actual results verified against the expected results. The individual testing requirements and their results can be seen in the included Conditions of Satisfaction Checklist.

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zooty 1 point ago +1 / -0

Gotta wonder why they're using C anyway.

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zooty 1 point ago +1 / -0

It may indicate the codebase is really old.

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bigmikesballsack 3 points ago +3 / -0

“Dominion releases statement—with no evidence—that it dindu nuffin.”