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2026-10-21 22:26 UTC

Trump officials asked CISA to secretly hack a voting machine — and not disclose any vulnerabilities they found

Replies (7)

  • @radiofreebc@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 03:23

    Americans deserve what’s about to happen to them.

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  • @BassTurd@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 02:37

    I don’t really understand why voting machines are complicated enough that there are feasible vulnerabilities. They have one job, and it’s to count. It really shouldn’t be too tough for a crack team of competent devs to write the software required to make them work securely. No network access, a memory safe language, and strict business rules should be relatively trivial to setup. Double that will external audits and you’ve got yourself a stew.

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  • @Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-10-22 04:17

    all that russian bloatware is installed in GOP controlled machines.

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  • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2026-10-21 23:10

    The likely motive: “My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don’t like,” one of the former officials told ProPublica. “This goes against everything CISA represents.”

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  • @newton@piefed.social 2026-10-23 05:38

    Nah, just fake news , RELEASE the EPSTEIN FILES

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  • @ramble81@lemmy.zip 2026-10-22 13:01

    Are there true electronic only voting machines in use? At least in my county, you go to one machine, pick out your choices, it prints out a slip with your choices (in plain English) and barcodes. You then go feed it into another system that scans it to record it and puts it into a locked box. If a recount is ever called you have a paper copy with the actual names that were voted for.

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  • The CISA employees repeatedly told the political appointees that their request was impossible, in part because the agents capable of pulling off such an operation had just been laid off by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative. The appointees eventually stopped pressing CISA. So once again, democracy saved only due to the incompetence of this administration and Musk.

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