"Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, one-time hero to election deniers, convicted in computer breach"
It’s interesting that, while Peter’s intention was to show the election was “stolen” from Trump, what she did was take a hard-drive image before and after an update.
That raises the question of transparency and scrutiny of election computers. Obviously those can be manipulated as any technical device can be manipulated and voting computers are no exception.
So the question to be asked is: should software running on such critical infrastructure be open source and updates and changes documented publicly. And if not, because we are worried, that the software is so insecure, that manipulation will happen, should we be using voting computers in the first place if even the makers of the software have no trust in their software?
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... Show more..."Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, one-time hero to election deniers, convicted in computer breach"
It’s interesting that, while Peter’s intention was to show the election was “stolen” from Trump, what she did was take a hard-drive image before and after an update.
That raises the question of transparency and scrutiny of election computers. Obviously those can be manipulated as any technical device can be manipulated and voting computers are no exception.
So the question to be asked is: should software running on such critical infrastructure be open source and updates and changes documented publicly. And if not, because we are worried, that the software is so insecure, that manipulation will happen, should we be using voting computers in the first place if even the makers of the software have no trust in their software?
#Voting#VotingComputers#VotingMachines#Democracy#security#criticalinfrastructure#itsec#deviceintegrity#TinaPeters#MikeLindell#GeraldWood
https://apnews.com/article/tina-peters-election-computer-breach-8a171657321dd595dfd2dd81e0a0a848
Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, the first local election official to be charged with a security breach after the 2020 election amid unfounded conspiracy theories, has been found guilty by a jury on most of the charges she faced.
COLLEEN SLEVIN (AP News)