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Are voting machines connected to the internet???
I mean, yeah, updating software is nearly always better for security, but why wouldn't you just run the machines disconnected for max security?
I imagine they’d just be updated via a USB drive or something similar, no need for a wi-fi adapter.
Someone could still get isolated access to one, and it's not a bad idea to ensure that the firmware is as robustly secure as possible.
The last voting machines I worked on didn't have Internet connectivity, but they did have a freely accessible PCMCIA card slot for firmware updates.
Voting machines are airgapped in polling places. Patches are most likely deployed from a centralized patch management server wherever they're stored in the off-season, likely also on an airgapped network.
Likely. Maybe. Should be. Best practice. Most likely.
So the vote goes into a black box, which few understand and which no one can observe, and we are to believe that no one was able to find a way around whatever good actors, policies, and procedures are in place to protect them from tampering?
Right, and they’re NOT building datacenters in order to make computer components so expensive that it prices the average joe out of personal computing and forces cloud serfdom.
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the
Idk about all that anymore. At least my state uses paper ballots.