I worked at a NASDAQ company that used Solar Winds for Computer and Network monitoring. After working operations in Data Centers for 15 years previously it impressed me as a very comprehensive tool. Best one I had seen to date. It does require privileges to monitor servers. How convenient to use it as the back door into the Election software. Makes Dominion look squeaky clean. Who would suspect a system monitoring tool used at a ton of company’s to be the vehicle into the software.
Sort of like having your Speedometer in your car becomes the way to manipulate engine fuel settings to pass the Emissions Test.
That we have such a multi-vendor software architecture for our voting systems is, imo, intended for committing fraud.
This cannot stand.
Agreed - it is impressive. As you note, it requires elevated privileges to run.
At work, we acknowledge that if a nation-state or what we call “first class” hacker wants access to your systems - they are getting access, short of disconnecting from the Internet, Intranet, etc.
I also have some experience with SolarWinds, and given what it does have a hard time believing it was the mechanism used to commit any kind of fraud.
DVS, on the other hand, was THE mechanism used to commit (massive) fraud - and that is all coming out per the Antrim County forensic audit.