Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Agency to Acquire a Voting Machine and Hack It

19 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by soundworlds
(propublica.org)

5 Comments

dfe

7 hours ago

The fact that government employees are shocked that the political appointees want to perform an industry-standard penetration test on the systems they are responsible for tells me everything I need to know.

What is the reason for the shock? I’m afraid we can only speculate.

What an absolutely insane narrative framing by propublica.

Kim_Bruning

3 hours ago

To be fair, I was with you for a minute there, but we both missed it on first reading I think...

> "The agency had been directed not to alert the voting machine company if it uncovered flaws"

That lack of responsible disclosure is not industry standard, afaik. That is slightly suss.

yepyoukno

8 hours ago

This is kind of funny.

Hate the administration or not, this kind of thing should be happening and the tone of those shocked that standards for security should be examined is ironic at least.

tstrimple

5 hours ago

There must be some sort of term for the type of derangement where you witness an administration doing the absolute worst at literally every possible opportunity but every single time they do something new which is degenerate you must come out and say "What if they just really care about election integrity? This is all normal guys. Promise."