Monker wrote:Well, that's interesting.
First, I never said that Russia hacked voting machines. I only said it is possible and gave Stuxnet as an example.
What's the implication? You are in Glenn Beck territory now. Dropping inflammatory bombs while hiding behind the excuse of "I am only asking questions!"
Monker wrote:For Stuxnet, the US and Israel hacked the Iranian owned centrifuges used for making weapons grade uranium. I doubt very much that Iran put their centrifuges on the 'net. It was also done without some covert spy sneaking in with a thumbdrive.
The thumbdrive is the prevailing theory. Nobody knows how it was done. Those that don't believe it was a USB believe the hardware was infected with malware before being shipped to Iran. Either way, the idea that this scenario bears any relationship to a presidential election is insane.
Monker wrote:This meant that it did not have to be on the 'net to spread. It would copy itself to a thumbdrive and then copy itself to any system it was plugged into, and all of the conecting systems. Again, until it copied itself into a very speciric environment.
The “connecting system” you are describing is called the internet, dumbass. The Stuxnet would even utilize the IP addresses of computer control systems and report back to servers. Again, voting booths are not connected to the web.
Monker wrote:There was no spies going into Iran to unleash this worm. It was simply released onto the internet but it infected computers off the internet via thumbdrives, CD's, and other media...or by intranet connections. Norton ended up finding it as a "harmless' virus...until they looked closer at the code and realized it was something special...and a probably cyber attack.
Link? Everything I read believes it was prolly Israeli spies.
Monker wrote:It would not be difficult at all to do the same thing and have a virus swap every 10th vote for a (D) to the (R). That would be a 10pt shift to the Republicans and enough to win most elections. And, it would not need some spy with a thumbdrive infecting the machines.
How would it get on the machines? The machines are not on a network. So, as I said, you are talking about individual machines being tampered with.
Monker wrote:To say it can't be done is incredibly naive. To make up stories of thumbdrives is ignorant of what is possible and already been done with Stuxnet. To make jokes and laugh about it is to not take seriously something that is a very real threat.
I guess these people are making things up too.

All of them say it was spread by thumb drives. Put up or fuck off.
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