Posted on 02/06/2020 7:34:01 AM PST by C19fan
The app used to report early results in Iowa's Democratic Presidential primary caucus was rudimentary in many ways, according to analyses by multiple Android app development experts and cybersecurity professionals who decompiled and studied the app after it was obtained by Motherboard.
The app, called IowaReporterApp and developed by a company called Shadow Inc., malfunctioned during the caucus, causing mass chaos and delaying the public reporting of results until Tuesday evening. The app was designed to rapidly report early results, not tabulate final vote counts. That means its failure will not result in the election result being altered.
But, until now, very little has been published about how the app was designed, how it was supposed to work, and what went wrong on caucus night.
Motherboard asked six cybersecurity and app development experts we trust to analyze the app. The app was built on top of React Native, an open-source app development package released by Facebook that can be used for both Android and iOS apps, according to Kasra Rahjerdi, who has been an Android developer since the original Android project was launched, and Robert Baptiste, a white-hat hacker who has exposed security flaws in many popular apps and reviewed the code. Rahjerdi said that the app contains default React Native metadata and that it comes off as a "very very off the shelf skeleton project plus add your own code kind of thing."
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Depends on who the crap artists were/are related to....
It’s 100% true that the president of the company that owns Shadow, Tara McGowen, is married to Michael Halle who was Hillary’s Iowa coordinator in 16 and currently a Buttigieg senior strategist.
“That means its failure will not result in the election result being altered.”
Does this mean that it’s success will result in the election result being altered?
WAS IT ‘SHAREWARE’ OR WAS IT ‘PIRATED’ CODE?.................
The party that claims to be the party of technology apparently is lying about that claim as well. This is like their 6th failure, with ACA (Affordable Care Act) being their biggest failure. I’m just sure the press will humiliate and expose the Democrats for the fraud they are now. 8>)
Hillary could be behind this whole mess. From the link below (and notice we’re talking staffers, not just donors):
“Tech firm Shadow, Inc., which created the technology for the Iowa caucuses that completely failed, is headed up by a number of former Hillary for America staffers.“
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2020/02/04/shadow-hillary-staffers-n2560675
This bunch is active in at least 35 other states...
Any app is only as secure as the morals of the people behind it. No integrity, noway.
they could have just use a shared spreadsheet where every precinct was a row or whatever, you just add your counts to the row and done.
Just a glimpse into how “Medicare for All” will work.
One tweets sums it up perfectly:
“Can we be honest here? This is exactly what happens when a couple of powerpoint jockeys from a losing 2016 campaign decide they’re now Silicon Valley superbrains and use connections to force the beta version of the first app they’ve ever dreamed up on an unwilling customer”
$63k from what I saw.
It is ObamaCare scaled down.
Using Obsolete API’s and protocols.
Sounds like a few people who took a few computer classes in college 5 years ago decided to do this.
Millions for an app that didn’t work, yet grocery stores come out with apps for on-line shopping and delivery. Wonder where all the money really went.
It sounds like $63k is WAAAY overpriced for the work done.
More Dem self-dealing to cronies.
Some Dems are not able to code properly?? Bwhahahahaha!
Someone ought to repost that meme of a software\app company that had 6 “woke” employees who did “woke” things and one employee (white guy” who actually coded.
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