Posted on 10/31/2024 10:55:00 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Passwords to Colorado voting equipment were inadvertently exposed when they were posted as part of a spreadsheet on the Colorado secretary of state’s website.
The leak of the information “does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado’s elections,” according to a press release from the office of Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, who acknowledged the error Tuesday.
Her office described the compromised information as “partial passwords to certain components of Colorado voting systems.”
The leak was revealed in a mass email from the Colorado Republican Party, which said it learned of the leak after an unnamed person sent to the party an affidavit attesting to how the person discovered it. The person said in the affidavit they accessed three times starting in early August a spreadsheet posted on the secretary of state’s website that contains an inventory, which the secretary is required to maintain, of voting system components used throughout Colorado’s 64 counties.
The person said they were able to view passwords to many of the components by right-clicking the worksheet and selecting “unhide,” which provided access to other hidden worksheets. One of the hidden worksheets contained Basic Input Output System — or BIOS — passwords for more than 700 election system components in every Colorado county except Las Animas, the affidavit says. The errant document has since been pulled from the secretary of state’s website.
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(Excerpt) Read more at coloradonewsline.com ...
But the credentials stayed the same, so...no problem!
But the gold star mom is going to jail. Well, CO.
Mistakenly? Really? …a freaking corrupt rat in charge of our most important election system who wanted to take Trump off the ballot mistakenly goofed? She needs to go to prison!!!😡
I know Members of our Armed Services go to jail for mishandling (even just negligently) sensitive information.
Election officials should have the same pucker factor.
Jail.
Dirty fascist Griswold tried to keep Trump off of the ballot.
HOW MANY of us here would be fired before our pens hit the floor if we made a mistake of this magnitude at work?
My company would go back in time to fire me and then fire me again in the present :)
That’s what always irks me.
Fed jobs, state jobs, fed and state jobs given to left leaning companies...they could set off a nuke by accident and be given a week off with no pay :)
And they’d get that pay back later on after things cooled off (no pun intended)
I tried to tell you, “this is the most secure election ever.”
Doesn’t speak well for all those others, does it?
Well, if dems are so worried they have to cheat in Colorado, Tuesday’s not looking very good for them...
“partial passwords”
Never in all my 50 years working with computers have I heard of somebody storing “partial passwords.” That is preposterous.
It goes on to say “The person said they were able to view passwords...passwords for more than 700 election system components”
So which is it? “partial passwords”? Or full passwords?
And what steps were taken to change all those pw?
Mistakingly on purpose.
I like how Griswold starts out: “Having all the voting machines passwords publicly available online, that is not a security violation...”
Sure. That might fly if she was speaking to a pre-school class...
NOT an “IMMEDIATE THREAT”.THE THREAT starts on Nov 5th.
Dont get too irked. Pretty soon you’ll have your dander and hackles, both, up.
I’m with you. The IRS loses control of millions of people’s records and they are exposed.
So sorry.
Nobody even got a slap on the hand,
dp0622 had it right-any of us would get our head handed to us on a platter and shown the door if we did that in our IT job.
But not them.
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