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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 259: Raucous Caucus Robots
xp1337 01/17/20 12:47:45 AM #194:	https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1117441 Article is worth the read but uh this is bad. NBC Article from the AP A computer security expert says he found that a forensic image of the election server central to a legal battle over the integrity of Georgia elections showed signs that the original server was hacked. Some backstory/paraphrasing the more alarming details from the story: This same expert discovered the server was exposed to the open internet for at least six months back in August 2016. Days after election integrity activists filed a lawsuit seeking an overhaul of Georgia's election system in 2017 the server was wiped clean with no notice. It wasn't until late last month that the plaintiffs were able to get a copy of the server's image from the FBI who kept one. The expert found evidence of it being compromised in December 2014 with evidence suggesting it exploited a bug that would give an attacker full control of the server. He also finds that the computer logs, which would be crucial to understanding what may have altered/stolen, only go back to November 10, 2016 - two days after the 2016 election. He also found that election-related files were deleted in March of 2017 right after a colleague of his alerted the group (now dismantled) that Kemp had handling election administration that the server was still vulnerable. He goes on to say it suggests foul play and can't think of any legitimate purpose such a deletion would have. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out? <cite>xp1337 posted [p:933062640] in Politics C... [t:78332271]...</cite> <quote>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1117441 Article is worth the read but uh this is bad. NBC Article from the AP <quote>A computer security expert says he found that a forensic image of the election server central to a legal battle over the integrity of Georgia elections showed signs that the original server was hacked.</quote> Some backstory/paraphrasing the more alarming details from the story: This same expert discovered the server was exposed to the open internet for at least six months back in August 2016. Days after election integrity activists filed a lawsuit seeking an overhaul of Georgia's election system in 2017 the server was wiped clean with no notice. It wasn't until late last month that the plaintiffs were able to get a copy of the server's image from the FBI who kept one. The expert found evidence of it being compromised in December 2014 with evidence suggesting it exploited a bug that would give an attacker full control of the server. He also finds that the computer logs, which would be crucial to understanding what may have altered/stolen, only go back to November 10, 2016 - two days after the 2016 election. He also found that election-related files were deleted in March of 2017 right after a colleague of his alerted the group (now dismantled) that Kemp had handling election administration that the server was still vulnerable. He goes on to say it suggests foul play and can't think of any legitimate purpose such a deletion would have. --- xp1337: Don't you wish there was a spell-checker that told you when you a word out?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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