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17 daysThe administration wanted a voting machine hacked, but DOGE had already fired the experts capable of doing it. Apparently the one thing stopping a potential election conspiracy was Elon Musk’s ability to make government incompetent at absolutely everything. Task failed successfully.
Wtf… you talking about 12 y/os have cracked voting machi… wait trump administration, nevermind.
- 17 days
Why do these people with fucked up keyboards persist in the fediverse
- saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
They think it helps prevent their comments from being used by LLMs or “poisons” them.
It should be obvious why that would never had been a thing from day one. But now, ironically, their use of it reinforces “þ” as a substitute so it’s prob been years since it’s needed to be in pre-training code too.
It’s quite literally a tinfoil hat.
This is probably the least harmful tinfoil hat on the internet.
Honestly, I don’t get why people are so aggressive towards Sxan. If it bugs you, just block them and be on your way. The first time I saw the thorn it was a curiosity. Once I knew what the intended purpose was it was easy to just shrug and move on. I’ve actually gotten used to it now and its not an inconvenience at all to read.
Constantly harassing someone because they fancy the use of a non-standard character in their comments is ludicrous behaviour, especially since we all have the tools to filter posts/users from our feeds at will; a few clicks and you never have to worry about it again.
- saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish15 days
No one’s being aggressive, harassing, or being bothered. Just pointing out what it is.
I mean, you just basically said the same thing yourself 🤷
I think people just like to bitch about þorn. You know what it says, so what’s þe issue?
- 17 days
þere’s so much þorn on þe Internet þese days, it might be out of control.
Normally vulnerability testing would be a good thing, but in this case I think it’s safe to assume the worst motivations for it.
- YurkshireLad@lemmy.caEnglish17 days
It’s the old projection thing again.
Republicans: the Dems hacked voting machines and stole the election! Lock them up!
Also Republicans: we hacked a voting machine so we can steal the election.
- Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
Pssst… They did it in 2016, and 2024. The only reason 2020 didn’t work was the massive amount of mail in ballots. Vlad helped, and now they are just making extra sure their cheats worked.
- grue@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
https://www.dcreport.org/2020/12/19/mitch-mcconnells-re-election-the-numbers-dont-add-up/
To be clear, I don’t necessary “believe” Republican fraud occurred. I do think there were enough statistical anomalies to warrant investigation, and that that didn’t happen because Trump put the Democrats fully in defensive mode by distracting them with spurious investigations elsewhere.
- Havatra@lemmy.zipEnglish17 days
Voting machines are vulnerable just like any other machine, and have been proven time and time again that they’re not particularly difficult to hack. DEF CON has been doing it for almost ten years at this point. First time in 2017, with lots of articles covering it. The year after even TIME reported about how an 11 year old did it. In 2024 they got some attention again due to Trump going for second term. But I don’t think much came of it…
The US is a flawed democracy, and has been on a steady decline for years.
- Redfugee@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
I worry that comments like this can degrade the confidence in the system.
States run their own elections and they’re usually administered at the county level. I can’t speak for any other county but the way we do elections here are legit. This system is audited and administered by bipartisan teams. During elections I work with people from different parties and facilitate a system to ensure our voting process maintains integrity.
If you don’t know how elections are administered where you live I encourage you to take an interest and get involved. We all have a duty here to oversee that we are administering elections with integrity.
- DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
So everyone who was involved in pushing that order is going to jail right?
Right?
Early voters are reporting some hijinks when selecting their choice so be VERY CAREFUL about confirming who you are voting for.
I know I am going to be checking in to make sure my vote was counted and counted for the people I want to win. You should to.
- LewdLemon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish17 days
Early voters are reporting some hijinks when selecting their choice so be VERY CAREFUL about confirming who you are voting for.
- LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zipEnglish17 days
I can tell from just the thumbnail that this is the Florida voting machine skit from 2004 lol. What a pull!
- Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
The first stone has fallen out of the wall. I hope it leads to more. If you look at the various numerical anomalies that occurred in swing states only, it becomes very plausible that Harris actually won.
- Mail-in votes closely reflected polling, but election-night voting (i.e. on the machines) contradicted the polls.
- Split-ticket voting occurred much more often than usual - in this case, ballots with a vote for Trump and votes for Democrats the rest of the way. This does happen in elections, but not nearly to the degree it happened in the swing states.
- The anomalies were always enough for Trump to win, but just below the thresholds that would trigger automatic audits.
- OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
The smoking gun for me is how much they’ve been screaming about others cheating. They cheated.
Pen-testing is part of good security…
…but let’s be real, anyone who believes Trump won’t exploit this rather than patch it is delusional.
- encelado748@feddit.orgEnglish17 days
They want to find vulnerabilities, even vulnerabilities that you cannot use or that you have no evidence are getting used, to justify canceling the vote later.
- Burn_The_Right@lemmy.todayEnglish17 days
Now why in the world would they want to do that? For educational purposes only, I presume. Fascists are famously pro-education.
There is no such thing as security if you have physical access to the device. So yes, I am sure they could “hack” it. (Remove storage, alter the votes, re-insert storage).
That doesn’t mean elections are compromised. It means one machine is compromised.
- _chris@lemmy.worldEnglish17 days
The storage had better be encrypted and locked to the machine it was installed on. It’s such a basic thing that…shit, yep they probably didn’t do it.
That would make sense, if it wasn’t because he is likely to drop dead any time now. Motherfucker looks like he already died but nobody is willing to tell him.
- kunaltyagi@programming.devEnglish15 days
He tried to grab the Furies by the pus*y and they sent him back
- finley@lemmy.zipEnglish17 days
