Enough Musk Spam

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the

This is a little different maybe? Still regarding the power supply's ability to wirelessly update.

Still scares the hell out of me, article is worth a read.

In March 2021, Leonard Leo—the judicial kingmaker behind the modern conservative legal machine—sold a quiet Chicago company by the name of Tripp Lite for $1.65 billion. The buyer: Eaton Corporation, a global power infrastructure conglomerate that just happened to have a partnership with Peter Thiel’s Palantir.

To most, Tripp Lite was just a hardware brand selling battery backups, surge protectors, power strips, nothing to be concerned about. But in America’s elections, Tripp Lite devices were something else entirely.

They are physically connected to ES&S central tabulators and Electionware servers, and Dominion tabulators and central servers across the country. And they aren’t dumb devices. They are smart UPS units—programmable, updatable, and capable of communicating directly with the election system via USB, serial port, or Ethernet.

Through investigations, we already know that some ES&S and Dominion systems are equipped with modems. Their hollow assurances that modems are “not connected during critical periods” are irrelevant as this doesn’t make their systems any less hackable.

Adding to this, ES&S systems—including central tabulators and Electionware servers—rely on Tripp Lite UPS devices. ES&S’s Electionware suite runs on Windows OS, which automatically trusts connected UPS hardware. Meaning if Eaton pushed an update to those UPS units, it could gain root-level access to the host tabulation environment without ever modifying certified election software.