Of course the idiots following this "audit" are saying that the SoS is referring to the previous audit.
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um, wut?Bennett: "I had some volunteers that were helping with the Twitter. "
The Twitter is hard!
May I help?
But...Atticus Finch wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 7:52 pm They don't need UV light to scan the ballots for bamboo fibers bring in a panda bear and if the panda bear eats the ballot then it proves that there is bamboo fibers in the ballot paper.
There shouldn't have been a router or hard drive on the counting floor period. Certainly volunteers can help with "the Twitter" without wifi.Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 6:51 pm Wifi router connected to audit servers sounds iffy. Or is that normal?
Cyber Ninjas totally know how to keep important info secure.
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs posted on social media Wednesday that a Wi-Fi router was discovered by Maricopa County audit observers connected to the servers that are being used to collect and store ballot data.
“There’s no way to ensure that ballot images, vote counts & perhaps voter data weren’t connected to external networks or the internet,” she tweeted.
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?
The public was told that the audit of Maricopa County’s 2.1 million ballots would be done on what is called an “air-gapped” network.
What this means is computers, cameras, and other devices can communicate with each other, but cannot connect to the outside world. Having a wireless router on an air-gapped network means that, depending upon how the router and the larger network are configured, there is potential for devices to reach the internet.
Maricopa County audit leaders have in their possession, not just the county’s ballots, but also voter registration data that includes private information such as driver licenses and the last four numbers of a voter’s Social Security number. They also have a digital copy of signatures for county registrants that voted in November.
While a network connection could put this data in jeopardy of leaking out, there is no indication at this time if the voter data and signatures are even present on the network.
This comes at a time when the Arizona State Senate is threatening to subpoena Maricopa County’s networking equipment to ensure that election equipment used by the county was not connected to the internet during the November general election.
WHAT DO WE KNOW?
A source on the floor where the audit is being conducted with knowledge of the situation said that the type of router being used is one that you might find in any home.
Audit staff insist that the router is being used only to give IP addresses to wireless cameras that are being used to keep the ballots and audit process under surveillance.
The router did not have a cable attached to its internet port but was connected to the main networking switches that all of the audit devices are using.
DOES THIS MEAN THE NETWORK WAS NOT SECURED?
No, but it does mean that audit leaders need to prove definitively that the wireless router was not connected to the internet in some way.
Networks that handle election data do not typically contain wireless routers since they can make it easier for cyber criminals to enter a network. Election officials confirmed to ABC15 that MCTEC, Maricopa County’s election warehouse, does not have a wireless router.
The presence of a wireless router does not automatically mean that there is an internet connection. An IT security analyst who works for ABC15 said there are multiple ways Wi-Fi routers can be properly configured and secured.
“The introduction of a Wi-Fi router is a huge opening to a network, air-gapped or otherwise," he explained. “If I were tasked with setting up this network, I would have simply purchased equipment that would have made the network beyond reproach and undoubtedly secure.”
Without knowing the full scope of the audit’s network, it is difficult to say whether the Wi-Fi router had the Wi-Fi settings properly disabled and that the network was properly isolated from the internet.
The Maricopa audit twitter account stated on social media that, “No wireless was ever enabled. This was explicitly explained to the SoS observers on site. We are open to providing all passwords and access needed for a forensic investigation of the router if requested.”
“Normal” has little to do with this “audit.”Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 6:51 pm Wifi router connected to audit servers sounds iffy. Or is that normal?
I don't agree.LM K wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 8:18 pmThere shouldn't have been a router or hard drive on the counting floor period. Certainly volunteers can help with "the Twitter" without wifi.Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 6:51 pm Wifi router connected to audit servers sounds iffy. Or is that normal?
And "the Twitter"?Uninformed wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 8:56 pm “No wireless was ever enabled”
So how did the cameras communicate?
What's going on in Arizona is not an audit, by any stretch of the imagination.SlimSloSlider wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 9:57 pm“Normal” has little to do with this “audit.”Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 6:51 pm Wifi router connected to audit servers sounds iffy. Or is that normal?
Having trained MCSEs and CCNAs, I can only concur.noblepa wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 10:21 pm
What's going on in Arizona is not an audit, by any stretch of the imagination.
They probably should hold a Microsoft MCSE and/or a Cisco CCNA certificate.
They would map all the connections that each device had to any other devices, making sure that only those connections that were necessary are active and they are properly secured.
They would make sure that all system passwords were in place and were not easily guessed. They would further interview the county's own security people to make sure that those passwords were changed regularly and that they were shared only with those technicians who needed them. Ideally, different functions of the network and servers would only be authorized for users who needed to access that function. Each of those users would only have access to the parts of the system necessary for their specific tasks.
Tasks would be assigned to different people, and each given a unique, non-shared userid/password. No one should have the "keys to the kingdom".
A real audit would begin with the written procedures used by the county board of elections. If those procedures were deemed adequate, interviews would be conducted with the county personnel to insure that those procedures were actually followed.
I work for a county government in Ohio (not an elections board) and we are in the midst of an audit by the State of Ohio's Auditor's office. So far, they have not physically removed any servers or routers. I personally have been responsible for providing them information about our system
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THAT is an audit.
The Arizona state Senate is conducting an unauthorized recount, not an audit. It is possibly in violation of Arizona's own laws regarding the handling, security and storage of ballots.
The "auditors" are asserting that the SoS didn't adequately follow their own procedures and that there are additional problems that need to be evaluated.noblepa wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 10:21 pm
What's going on in Arizona is not an audit, by any stretch of the imagination.
It is an unauthorized recount. They are simply counting the ballots again and supposedly physically examining the paper ballots.
An actual audit could be done without recounting the ballots. It involves examining the equipment used on November 3 and shortly thereafter to count the ballots, to make sure that those devices were secure and that the network was secure. An auditor would need to be a network security expert. They probably should hold a Microsoft MCSE and/or a Cisco CCNA certificate.
They would map all the connections that each device had to any other devices, making sure that only those connections that were necessary are active and they are properly secured.
They would make sure that all system passwords were in place and were not easily guessed. They would further interview the county's own security people to make sure that those passwords were changed regularly and that they were shared only with those technicians who needed them. Ideally, different functions of the network and servers would only be authorized for users who needed to access that function. Each of those users would only have access to the parts of the system necessary for their specific tasks.
Tasks would be assigned to different people, and each given a unique, non-shared userid/password. No one should have the "keys to the kingdom".
A real audit would begin with the written procedures used by the county board of elections. If those procedures were deemed adequate, interviews would be conducted with the county personnel to insure that those procedures were actually followed.
An audit does not involve running the paper ballots through the scanners again. The physical ballots are only needed if you wish to examine them to rule out (or to discover) fraudulent paper ballots. In other words, auditors would LOOK at the ballots, perhaps very closely, but would not need to actually scan them.
I work for a county government in Ohio (not an elections board) and we are in the midst of an audit by the State of Ohio's Auditor's office. So far, they have not physically removed any servers or routers. I personally have been responsible for providing them information about our system backups.
I have given them copies of the jobs that perform the backups. I have identified the disk volumes being backed up. I have provided information from our automated job scheduling system to show when the jobs are scheduled to run. I have given them copies of the job scheduler logs, showing that the jobs did, in fact, run when I said they were scheduled to run. They have examined this documentation of the process and made a decision on whether or not the process adequately protects us against data loss and they have verified that we were following our own procedures.
THAT is an audit.
The Arizona state Senate is conducting an unauthorized recount, not an audit. It is possibly in violation of Arizona's own laws regarding the handling, security and storage of ballots.
So did I. Let's be codefendants!
They go around and around.Patrick Byrne’s America Project, [12.05.21 23:13]
[ File : 5-12-21_Letter_to_Maricopa_County_Board-1.pdf ]
Patrick Byrne’s America Project, [12.05.21 23:22]
After reading the Arizona Senate’s letter to the Maricopa county board, I have questions. Feel free to amplify these across social media, because these are the points and questions to which we citizens should demand answers:
Maricopa County purposefully deleted a directory full of election databases related to the past 2020 election cycle ~10 days before the election equipment was delivered to the @arizonaaudit. This is destruction of evidence and at least, contempt.
Maricopa County purposefully deleted a directory full of election databases ~10 days before turning election equipment over to the AZ Senate audit team.
Breaking Update: @arizonaaudit uncovers evidence that Maricopa County intentionally deleted election data! They stole the election!
• 4/12 – County deleted election databases
• 4/21-22 – County election equipment was delivered to the audit
Why did security seals arrive cut and why were they placed at the bottom of the boxes? Why were security ballot bags not used by the County?
Is this the Counties customary practice for storing ballots?
AZ Attorney General Mark Brnovich needs to get involved immediately. What is Maricopa County hiding? We need answers! @arizonaaudit
AZ Senate Election Audit finds that Maricopa County delivered ballot boxes missing a significant number of ballots! We need AZ Attorney General Mark Brnovich to get involved now! @arizonaaudit
The @arizonaaudit discovers that there are missing ballots in Maricopa County! The Counties numbers don’t match up!
Multiple batches delivered by Maricopa County to the @arizonaaudit are missing ballots!
AZ Senate Audit uncovers that Maricopa County has no chain-of-custody documentation for the ballots that the County provided for the audit!
The @arizonaaudit team finds unsealed ballot bags and cut security seals at the bottom of ballot boxes.
Maricopa Board of Supervisors refuses to comply with the AZ Senate Legislative Subpoenas. What are they hiding??
Election fraud discovered in AZ! Now we know why the Democrats have opposed the @arizonaaudit from the beginning. They purposefully deleted election databases in Maricopa County before the audit began.
AZ election audit uncovers major election fraud in Maricopa County! Democrats knowingly deleted specific election data before the audit started!
AZ Secretary of State @katiehobbs opposed the @arizonaaudit in Maricopa County and could now be held criminally responsible for the newly found fraud!
Soros funded AZ SoS @katiehobbs could be in serious legal trouble after @arizonaaudit uncovers serious fraud in Maricopa County!
Patrick Byrne’s America Project, [13.05.21 00:17]
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/ne ... -to-audit/