And again, ES&S, the nation's largest voting machine vendor, has blatantly lied to election administrators about their crappy election security. In this hearing ES&S executives lie to Chicago's election board by claiming, @ min 12:30, that...1/
...the Amazon Web Server (AWS) security is by default PUBLIC and that it must be configured to be private, but it's exactly the opposite.
See, ES&S left 1.8Million voter registrations exposed and unprotected on an AWS online. AWS by default makes any data PRIVATE and it must...2/
...actively re-configured to make data PUBLIC. As ES&S was being criticized by Chicago election officials, they blamed AWS, saying exactly the opposite - the AWS is PUBLIC by default and must be configured to be private. That's a lie. 3/ usatoday.com/story/tech/201…
According to @USATODAY "Amazon's AWS cloud service provides online storage, but configuring the security settings for that service is up to the user and is not set by Amazon. The default for all of AWS' cloud storage is to be secure, so someone within ES&S would have had to ...4/
ES&S lied once again to cover their own butts. Yet, they will count more than half of the votes in the country. This is why we need mandatory, independent, manual post-election audits of paper ballots of all elections. We need to verify our elections.
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Powell has gotten a sweetheart deal in the GA RICO case. But the voting system breach in Coffee County was one part of a multistate plot to take voting software from multiple states. The voting software was unlawfully taken, then distributed among Trump allies & election... 1/
...deniers. The distribution of voting software among domestic extremists poses threats to elections going forward. 2/ See this article: slate.com/news-and-polit…
Powell was involved in other voting system breaches, specifically in MI. Stephanie Lambert, Powell's Kraken co-counsel,is indicted in MI for similar voting system breaches that implicate Powell, but Powell wasn't charged in MI, nor is there evidence the feds are investigating.
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🧵According to @guardian, Willis is likely to charge "computer trespass" which is almost certainly the effort by the Trump campaign to unlawfully access, copy & covertly distribute copies of the software that runs all of GA's voting system, uncovered by @MarilynRMarks1 1/
This stunning crime was not just ignored, but denied for months by the @GaSecofState. It was only discovered by private citizens in civil litigation. Here's @GabrielSterling saying it didn't happen, even after he'd been told the culprits admitted it. 2/
It is only thanks to the hard work & fortitude of @CoalitionGoodGv, co-plaintiffs, their attorneys,experts, & reporters, @emmersbrown, @jonswaine, @ZcohenCNN, @katebrumback, @Jose_Pagliery @byaaroncdavis, @markniesse, @richardsdoug & more this consequential plot was uncovered.3/
Uber admits covering up 2016 hacking, avoids prosecution in U.S. settlement. This is galling and despicable, and it also relates importantly to election security and democracy. I'll tell you how. 1/ valleynewslive.com/2022/07/23/ube…
According to this story, "Uber Technologies Inc on Friday accepted responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers and drivers, as part of a settlement with U.S. prosecutors to avoid criminal charges...Uber admitted that its personnel...2/
...failed to report the November 2016 hacking to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, even though the agency had been investigating the ride-sharing company’s data security...[Uber] arranged to pay the hackers $100,000 in bitcoin and have them sign nondisclosure agreements...4/
This is stunning - another instance of radicalized insiders allowing Trump extremists to access voting systems. There are several important points of context to add to this remarkable reporting 1/🧵
This report indicates that the plague of election officials that have permitted potentially criminal access to voting machines extends beyond MI, CO, OH, PA and NC to GA. 2/ reuters.com/investigates/s…
This @washingtonpost
report is especially troubling because the alleged election system breach occurred in deep-red Coffee County, GA. Most notably, Coffee County was cited in the draft executive order as a reason for the DOD to seize voting machines. 3/ politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
Yesterday the @ABAesq held a webinar on accessible voting which provided important information and insights regarding the challenges that voters w/disabilities face. But @ABAesq did a disservice to its viewers by not providing the facts regarding the severe security risks... 1/
...associated with the electronic or online return of voted ballots. Instead of including the @ABANatSec & @ABAcyber, or other cybersecurity & voting experts, the webinar relied on @evelhill, who misrepresented key points regarding the security of internet voting & the... 2/
...research & recommendations against online voting that have been published by @DHSgov 's @CISAgov & @FBI, & @theNASEM -claiming falsely that those studies and their warnings are only applicable to proposals for ALL voters to vote online. This is plainly false on its face. 3/
Internet voting has been snarkily called the "#Theranos of voting." #ElizabethHolmes trial watchers may be surprised to know HOW similar, as internet voting vendors pulled one of the exact same tricks that #Holmes did, which led to her fraud conviction. Thread 1/
One of the most damning pieces of evidence that compelled a guilty verdict in the #Holmestrial was the fact that Elizabeth put logos from pharmaceutical companies, like @pfizer, on reports that Theranos itself had authored, so that it looked like Pfizer endorsed the findings. 2/
Well, funny story. Voatz, a blockchain internet voting system vendor, wrote a report that purported to be findings of a @DHSgov assessment of their system. And they went ahead and slapped the DHS seal and logo right on top, so that it looked like the report was written by DHS.3/