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Nation’s Top Hackers at DEF CON Conference Once Again Easily Breach U.S. Voting Machines — Yet Republicans Continue to Ignore This Crisis Year After Year
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | 8/14/2024 | JIM HOFT

Posted on 08/14/2024 6:28:12 AM PDT by bitt

Where did this come from? Since when did the far-left legacy media start reporting on election fraud?

Politico on Tuesday broke the news that “the nation’s best hackers” were able to break into voting machines.

Over the weekend, some of the world’s top hackers convened in Las Vegas for the annual DEF CON conference, specifically at the Voting Village event, to probe and expose vulnerabilities in voting machines set to be used in the upcoming November election.

From Friday through Sunday, hackers at Voting Village tested various voting machines and related equipment, attempting to bypass security measures.

Meanwhile, election officials discussed misinformation and disinformation threats. The findings from this year’s event will be detailed in a forthcoming report by the organizers.

Harri Hursti, co-founder of Voting Village, noted that the list of vulnerabilities found was extensive but consistent with previous years.

“There’s so much basic stuff that should be happening and is not happening, so yes I’m worried about things not being fixed, but they haven’t been fixed for a long time, and I’m also angry about it,” Hursti told Politico.

Scott Algeier, executive director of the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (IT-ISAC), emphasized that fixing vulnerabilities is not a quick process: “Even if you find a vulnerability next week in a piece of modern equipment that’s deployed in the field, there’s a challenge in getting the patch and getting the fix out to the state and local elections officials and onto the equipment before the November election.”

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1 posted on 08/14/2024 6:28:12 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 08/14/2024 6:28:25 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Can’t our side hack for an honest result nullifying the dim hack?


3 posted on 08/14/2024 6:31:42 AM PDT by xp38
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To: bitt

What many folks forget is that if a voting or tabulating machine can be hooked up to the Internet at any time—even for a moment—even months before the election—the machine can be hacked.


4 posted on 08/14/2024 6:34:11 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: xp38

We should just skip the voting part and let the hackers duke it out....

Lol.


5 posted on 08/14/2024 6:35:15 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: xp38

All depends which side the DEF CON hackers are on. They’re the best. Much better than the demscum’s hackers. If they are on the demscum side, we lose. If they are on the side of fair elections, we win. Looks like the later may be the case this time around.


6 posted on 08/14/2024 6:35:32 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: bitt

Now you know why the rats kept winning all those special elections and primaries. How much you want a bet they hacked into the voting machines to give Omar the advantage! Everything that we’ve known has been a lie when it comes to integrity honesty and honor in our elections. Little by little we are losing our freedoms and our election rights. And now that illegal invaders are getting the right to vote we Americans are getting disenfranchise by the EVIL left wing hamas powerful cheating machine! DDS attack on X the other night is proof of how extensive and far these tentacles reach. No matter how hard Lara Trump and Whatley try you cannot beat the voting machine hackers. BUT, and I strongly say this, the only way to beat this type of enemy is to hack the hackers before they do the switcheroo on the machines. We have to have expert hackers who can hack the evil hackers ….That’s the only way to fight fire with fire! Other than that we’re sitting ducks waiting for the fatal blow.


7 posted on 08/14/2024 6:38:50 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: bitt

The GOP loves it!


8 posted on 08/14/2024 6:39:29 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: bitt

Especially when a federal agency, CISA, has been charged with assuring cyber election security—but is itself virtually guaranteed to send out backdoors with any patches or other software it deploys.


9 posted on 08/14/2024 6:42:05 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: bitt

If Trump wins, Politico and other left-wing publications are going to cry FOUL and accuse hackers of throwing the election for Trump. Then the legal battles begin. They will try to get some left-wing judge like Engoron or someone else to hear the case. That’s my theory, anyway.


10 posted on 08/14/2024 6:44:17 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: bitt

Election fraud has always been an issue when a Republican wins.

I believe the left and its media are coming to grips with the fact that Harris can’t win even with election fraud. So when they lose they will do what they did when Trump won the last time. They will scream bloody murder that Trump stole it.


11 posted on 08/14/2024 6:45:29 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: bitt

This is why we need in-person voting by people who are verified as being qualified to cast their ballot, with paper ballots. But the cheating Democrats and Deep State captured RINOs won’t allow it - and the reason is clear.


12 posted on 08/14/2024 6:46:41 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: RoseofTexas

Minnesota’s voting machines scan a paper ballot that has been filled out. There is a paper trail. Omar won because her district is comprised of mainly liberal looney left-wing nut jobs. She also had three other challengers splitting the knot Omar vote on the Democrat side.

Plus I’m sure she did a bit of harvesting and ballet stuffing as well


13 posted on 08/14/2024 6:47:52 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: bitt

Many on the left distrust electronic voting. They blamed it for Bush43’s re-election and Trump’s 2016 win (Russia hacked the voting machines).

But when they win, the issue goes away, just like it does for our side.

Real sanity needs to return us to paper ballots that can be machine counted and retained for hand recounts.

But our politicians are all too busy enriching themselves before the collapse.


14 posted on 08/14/2024 6:50:15 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: bitt
Sounds to me like somebody, somewhere, is keying up for last minute paper ballot and hand counting decisions since the machine systems are so broken.

STRICTLY my opinion. No evidence to cite.

15 posted on 08/14/2024 6:50:50 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: xp38

“Can’t our side hack for an honest result nullifying the dim hack?”

They wouldn’t stoop to that level.
We are above that.
Must reach across the aisle to show good will.

Barf….


16 posted on 08/14/2024 6:51:37 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: cableguymn

The machines can still be hacked—even with a paper trail.

The reason is that the paper trail is irrelevant unless there is a post vote audit.

If she won by a wide margin (which she did) nobody is going to audit the paper.


17 posted on 08/14/2024 6:53:52 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: bitt

Of course the Republicans ignore it. Some if not most of the Republican “elected” officials are as much a part of the Deep State as the demscum.


18 posted on 08/14/2024 6:57:31 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland!)
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To: bitt

They’ll do something about it if the Dems want them to.

People have to keep in mind that the Pubbie Party has been Leftist since its beginnings in 1854. Our two parties are just two sides of one collectivist coin. Until people see through the facade of “choice” and walk away from that, nothing much is going to change.


19 posted on 08/14/2024 6:59:19 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: bitt; little jeremiah

but, but, but the machines are NOT on line


20 posted on 08/14/2024 7:00:03 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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