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To: miliantnutcase
Of note while getting my own "Sauce"...

Memory sticks used to program Philly’s voting machines were stolen from elections warehouse Updated: September 30, 2020

The flash drives are encrypted to prevent tampering, and specifically matched with individual voting machines, said a spokesperson for Election Systems & Software, the voting machine vendor, adding: “Upon programming, these encryption keys ‘marry’ the USB with the machine, and if placed in another machine, it will cause an error and the machine will not work.”

AMAZING! You sound just like the spokesperson for Election Systems & Software.

Sounds like "padding the price" to me for such a minuscule thing.

39 posted on 11/08/2020 5:13:59 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

Also, aren’t ‘encrypted USB drives’ just a matter of formatting and applying the proper software on the device and the USB drive? Mine is.


42 posted on 11/08/2020 5:20:46 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: philman_36

Yes, that’s the setup. Vendors that specialize in extremely niche hardware set the price since you are stuck with an ecosystem.


47 posted on 11/08/2020 6:16:31 PM PST by miliantnutcase
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