The government auditing the government. Yeah...what could go wrong?
Anyone claiming the amount of experience you do should understand from an overall architecture point of view that this thing is turd from a cybersecurity point of view. That you don’t seem to grasp that I assume you’ve spent 30 years writing Visual Basic.
Your faith in government is disturbing, to the point where I think you’re on the wrong site.
Let a hardware ‘expert’ chime in.
If there is a way to INPUT to the machine different instructions than those that have been tested and verified and vetted, then the security is definitely compromised.
Blockchain seems to work for software data integrity; but I do not know if there is an equivalent method to be attained by hardware.
The old mechanical machines merely counted.
NOTHING was computed.