Posted on 05/07/2021 12:39:39 AM PDT by knighthawk
You’ve gotta show up to a polling location once every 4 years, 2 years if you want to vote in midterms. That’s an incredibly minor commitment to maintain a republic.
It’s true. And it begs the further question: what is the commitment a citizen should make to his republic — be it nation, state, and local city or town?
We hardly hear any discussion about that. But history shows, without a watchful eye and active pushback at all levels, the tyrants and UniParty will continue milking the public trough and destroying the country.
Connectivity to a network immediately makes an infrastructure system "compromised" in a zero trust, assume breach security stance. For that reason, critical security infrastructure is recommended to be offline or on a "Tier 0 network" that is isolated from the Internet and heavily controlled.
As an IT security professional, I deal a lot with public key infrastructure. This is the stuff that ensures the websites you visit are secure. That little lock in your URL bar means the site is secured using a certificate that is trusted back to a specific issuing authority. If the root certificate authority (CA) is online, it can be compromised. With every single customer I've worked, I recommend the root CA be offline and act as a "signer" for CAs down the chain that act as "issuers." I can't tell you how many corporations and even federal entities have online root CAs. If the bad guys get into your environment, their first stop is your identity infrastructure (i.e. Active Directory), and as soon as they have the keys to your kingdom, they're looking for your CA. If they can get on your CA, Katie bar the door.
Election systems should natively be offline. They should never once be put online in any way; not via wired or wireless or even Bluetooth connections. If any of those mechanisms are available, the system can, and likely will be, compromised.
I believe Franklin’s “if you can keep it” statement, in its simplest form, required active civic engagement at all levels of government, especially local. The fact that we’ve allowed mail-in voting and drop offs tells me that we’ve lost the battle with civic engagement. We’ve become so lazy as a society that something as simple as going to a polling place on election day is just too much to bear.
When I was a kid, my mother used to drag us to church every Sunday with the pronouncement that we have a simple 1 hour per week commitment to save our souls. It seemed to simple to me as a child. Going to a polling place once every 2 years is even less of a commitment to ensure prosperity. It’s beyond me how we’ve gotten to this point.
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