Posted on 07/15/2021 5:51:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
An auditor helping lead the 2020 election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona, said Thursday that it is "critically important" auditors gain access to a contested set of data machines that the county is refusing to hand over.
Maricopa County has for months refused to hand over county-owned routers subpoenaed by the Arizona state Senate, despite a judge earlier this year ruling the subpoena valid, effectively ordering the county to comply.
County officials have claimed that the routers, if surrendered, could constitute a security risk if sensitive data within them is leaked.
At the state Senate hearing on Thursday, one of the lead investigators of the Maricopa audit dismissed those claims and stressed what he said was the pressing importance of obtaining the routers.
Obtaining the routers is "critically important," Ben Cotton, the founder of the cybersecurity group Cyfir, told Arizona state officials.
Cotton said the routers will help clarify the specific vulnerabilities he claimed are present in the county's digital election systems.
"The last time that the antivirus [software] was updated on these systems," Cotton claimed during his testimony, was in August 2019.
"There have been no operating system updates or patches since that same date," he also said.
Hackers, he claimed, would have "no difficulty at all" gaining "system-level access" to registration systems at the "current patch state and antivirus state of these systems."
Cotton dismissed the security concerns advanced by the county over the last few months, saying a forensic review of the systems would produce no "people-sensitive data" from county files.
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"We'd like to turn over this evidence, but if we did that, you might find out that a crime was committed. Sorry. No can do."
Oh those were lost in a boating accident
Why haven’t the State Police arrested them?
And Ducey is still sitting on his hands.
Since Democrats and their friends and allies do as they please, why do the rest of us have to obey them?
Of course it is a “security” risk.
It is a risk to the entire damn election fraud being exposed.
Firewalls are designed to keep records of who has used them and when.
I told the AZ GOP that they will find 3 possibilities.
1) Nothing unusual, one superuser account and no breach.
2) Multiple users being assigned and records for who they were and when they got in.
(This is never done unless there is a really severe problem requiring very Sr interaction)
3) Traffic and user accounts are missing.
(This is never done unless records of criminal activity is being blocked)
#2 and #3 are felonies of the highest order as it points directly at a highly organized conspiracy.
NO ONE gets the keys to a firewall....EVER!
>>Maricopa County has for months refused to hand over county-owned routers subpoenaed by the Arizona state Senate, despite a judge earlier this year ruling the subpoena valid, effectively ordering the county to comply.<<
If they’ve been subpoenaed, why wouldn’t the state send troopers to fetch them and arrest anyone standing in their way?
I guess we don’t anymore. If the BOS, with 3 out of 5 being Republicans, can ignore a lawfully issued subpoena, then every Arizonan can too! Laws no longer exist here I guess!
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