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What does Ukraine's national anthem have to do with the US voter database?
Sputnik ^ | Sputnik

Posted on 09/02/2024 7:40:39 AM PDT by hardspunned

A programmer had hard-coded the Ukrainian national anthem into the voter database in the US state of New Hampshire, media reported, citing a cybersecurity firm which found troubling security bugs written into the database.

During the project of replacing the state's outdated voter registration database before the 2024 election, some tasks of the project have been outsourced, which meant unknown programmers outside the US could have access to the software.

(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
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Politico has a story confirming this

“Hacking blind spot: States struggle to vet coders of election software”

1 posted on 09/02/2024 7:40:39 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/01/us-election-software-national-security-threats-00176615


2 posted on 09/02/2024 7:41:07 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: hardspunned
I propose that elections all be done low tech, to prevent fraud.

Just because technology exists doesn't mean it's always appropriate.

3 posted on 09/02/2024 7:47:19 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

That’s why I’ve always stayed away from slot machines since they were taken over by computers. I DON’T TRUST COMPUTERS! None of them.


4 posted on 09/02/2024 7:51:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is freeloader "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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To: hardspunned
During the project of replacing the state's outdated voter registration database before the 2024 election, some tasks of the project have been outsourced, which meant unknown programmers outside the US could have access to the software.

Boy, I'm sure glad the Democrats don't know about this.

5 posted on 09/02/2024 8:02:20 AM PDT by econjack
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To: hardspunned

As a side note, Ukrainian government officials connected to the Clintons and deep-state meddled “big time” in the 2016 election, against Trump.


6 posted on 09/02/2024 8:05:48 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: hardspunned

Sputnik; formerly Voice of Russia and RIA Novosti, naming derived from Russian спутник, “satellite”) is a Russian state-owned news agency and radio broadcast service. It was established by the Russian government-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya on 10 November 2014. Sputnik is frequently described by academics and journalists as a Russian propaganda outlet. In April 2017, Sputnik signed a personnel exchange deal with the Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party tabloid.


7 posted on 09/02/2024 8:06:36 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
That’s why I’ve always stayed away from slot machines since they were taken over by computers.

Correct.

I used to work for a company which programmed slot machines, and their intention was to make the player believe that he/she had a chance. The machines ALWAYS ended up ahead. The 'temporary' wins was to get the gamblers to continue to play, and they almost always ended up losing or giving back whatever they had temporarily won.
8 posted on 09/02/2024 8:27:39 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: adorno

Last time I played a slot machine was in the 60s at the Golden Nugget in Vegas.


9 posted on 09/02/2024 8:29:53 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Liberals are FOS. The greatest threat to "democracy" is freeloader "immigration". Stupid morons.)
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To: Salman

“Just because technology exists doesn’t mean it’s always appropriate.”

Likewise, the Neocons are learning (probably not, actually) that GPS works quite well getting them home after work, and when up against Afghan goat-herders, that doesn’t mean it works as well against first-rate military powers.


10 posted on 09/02/2024 8:32:03 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Alter Kaker; hardspunned

Always ready to offer your zeeper propaganda, you and others should be aware that “Sputnik” is merely repeating this same story reported earlier elsewhere

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/01/us-election-software-national-security-threats-00176615


11 posted on 09/02/2024 8:34:19 AM PDT by PGR88
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Well it IS a kick ass anthem so there is that...


12 posted on 09/02/2024 8:40:22 AM PDT by iluvschnitzle
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Last time I played a slot machine was in the 60s at the Golden Nugget in Vegas.

Slot machines, and all gambling at casinos, are just part of the entertainment packages. You enjoy the music and dancers and your stay at the hotel casino, and you also enjoy yourself believing that you could be a winner, but, unerringly, you always walk away with a poorer wallet or bank account.
13 posted on 09/02/2024 8:44:55 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: hardspunned

At my company, we just use anything open source.

It is checked for vulnerabilities, but the Ukrainian anthem would be missed and approved.


14 posted on 09/02/2024 8:47:27 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: PGR88

I thought politico was verboten here. If you had looked, I referenced your story and provided the link. Search still works.


15 posted on 09/02/2024 8:47:35 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: hardspunned

What does that mean? That the Ukraine National Anthem was hard coded? Would anyone in NH Election office know?


16 posted on 09/02/2024 10:00:32 AM PDT by RWGinger (FJB)
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To: adorno

I preferred Vegas when you could sit at the 1 dollar blackjack table and smoke their free cigarettes from the box on the table and drink their free booze all day long until sometime in the night you finally got drunk enough to lose the 10 dollars you came in with.


17 posted on 09/02/2024 10:03:01 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: hardspunned

More of your Rooskie fear-mongering nonsense

no sources for the story ... “could have”, “maybe”, etc. ...

LOL, if you guys are this desperate, it must mean Russia is still losing, huh?


18 posted on 09/02/2024 11:42:24 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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