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10. Whomever owns the source code can give them access.

Reply to Orsino (Reply #9)

Wed Jun 21, 2017, 11:29 AM

Jun 2017

The change comes in the form of a "security update". Boom.

Or the compiled code is reverse engineered. Harder but not impossible.

Or they hack the central tabulating computer that may or may not use the proprietary code.

Look I'm no expert. But you have Russia, money, Republicans, hackers all wanting the same thing.... come on..

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DHS Never Ran Audit to See if Votes Were Hacked [View all] deminks Jun 2017 OP

What would be the point of all of the hacking... Zoonart Jun 2017 #1

YUP TBA Jun 2017 #4

Double Yup Zoonart Jun 2017 #7

Triple Yup. Alice11111 Jun 2017 #14

This just makes me want to scream TBA Jun 2017 #2

Let it be written. Alice11111 Jun 2017 #15

You can't audit ballots that never really existed... Orsino Jun 2017 #3

You can audit a server and see if someone is poking around. TBA Jun 2017 #5

Oh, you can certainly read a log. Orsino Jun 2017 #6

I totally agree on the hard copy ballots TBA Jun 2017 #8

If they have access to the source code... Orsino Jun 2017 #9

Whomever owns the source code can give them access. TBA Jun 2017 #10

Reverse compiling is an inexact art. Orsino Jun 2017 #11

Least likely senecio I admit. TBA Jun 2017 #12

Given that many "theys" could have been hacking for many years, I think it likely. Orsino Jun 2017 #13

Amsterdam saw it coming, and managed to change their system Alice11111 Jun 2017 #17

States would've had to have asked DHS to do so? to audit to see whether votes were hacked. Madam45for2923 Jun 2017 #16