“This is not a security threat,” Colorado’s Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold told 9NEWS Tuesday…We have layers of security, and out of just an abundance of caution, have staff in the field changing passwords, looking at access logs and looking at the entire situation and continuing our investigation.” [More]
Now that we’ve been caught…
I’m trying to conceive of a situation where this could happen either by accident or incompetence.
[Via Michael G]
Reminds me of the time a U of F Sigma Nu, allegedly the prototype for “Animal House” hung a sign on a beer keg proclaiming “THIS IS NOT A KEG!”
Well, you just posted a few days ago about the fake Obama birth certificate available on a .gov website retaining obvious assembly layers they forgot to merge down. This is the same category of incompetence. 30 years ago, it was Homer Simpson’s website, that slowly blacked out his name and replaced it with “MISTER X.”
My fav is the document Dan Rather tried to use to show George Bush didn’t do squat as a member of the Air National Guard. The problem was it was printed in a font that didn’t exist when the document was supposedly created.
I understand the cryptographic keys were stored on the machines, IN PLAIN TEXT.
That implies, you could monkey around with ANY of the files on the machine, tweak a few bits here and there, (like add just enough votes to change the election,) then re-sign the files so the check sums will MATCH what is expected with NO ONE THE WISER…