Days Before Election, Hammer (HAMR) and Scorecard Were Predicted To Be Used

piezoe · Nov 12, 2020

userque said:
Self-taught Z-80 Assembly as a kid.
So on and so forth.

I'm old enough to remember the Z-80 and some before that.

userque · Nov 12, 2020

piezoe said:
I'm old enough to remember the Z-80 and some before that.

Ahh.

She was my first.

I asked for, and received a Timex Sinclair 1000 computer for Christmas. I bought some books and learned "BASIC" and Assembly.

Eventually upgraded it to 16K from 2K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000

PintoFire · Nov 12, 2020

elderado said:
I'm feeling charitable. Listen to the 11/11 episode (recorded 11/8) on the PS show. https://toresays.com/tore-says-show/

Good find! Thanks for sharing.

Sidenote, I had minor involvement with a specific type of testing for electric circuits, look up what would be an acronym for Tiny ElectroMagnetic Particles Emitting Secret Things. That was a real eye opener for me.

piezoe · Nov 12, 2020

PintoFire said:
I like you have digital circuit design experience. VHDL and SystemVerilog for chip design.

I'm trying to understand why a cyberweapon is not plausible when it's clearly been used before. Just not domestically.

Cyber weapons are plausible, but they can only function in a read-write cyber domain. The scanners used in Pennsylvania to read paper ballots and print out a paper summary of the count are not in a read-write cyber domain.

piezoe · Nov 12, 2020

userque said:
Ahh.

She was my first.

I asked for, and received a Timex Sinclair 1000 computer for Christmas. I bought some books and learned "BASIC" and Assembly.

Eventually upgraded it to 16K from 2K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000

Those were the days! At the University of New Mexico we had an IBM 360 model 67 one of the most advanced computers in the country at the time . If I remember correctly it cost around 4 million dollars. It occupied it's own building built specifically to house the Model 67. It had 512K bytes of memory. The memory, all in racks, occupied a large specially air conditioned room.

Hotcakes · Nov 12, 2020

Cuddles · Nov 13, 2020

Here4money said:
can't have him contradicting the minister of propaganda:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...tes-he-expects-to-be-fired-idUSKBN27S2YI?il=0

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, who worked on protecting the election from hackers but drew the ire of the Trump White House over efforts to debunk disinformation, has told associates he expects to be fired, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Krebs, who heads the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), did not return messages seeking comment. CISA and the White House declined comment.

Separately, Bryan Ware, assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA, confirmed to Reuters that he had handed in his resignation on Thursday. Ware did not provide details, but a U.S. official familiar with his matter said the White House asked for Ware’s resignation earlier this week.

The departure is part of the churn in the administration since Republican President Donald Trump was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden in last week’s election, raising concerns about the transition to the president-elect who would take office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has yet to concede and has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud, fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper and has installed loyalists in top positions at the Pentagon.

Krebs has drawn praise from both Democrats and Republicans for his handling of the election, which generally ran smoothly despite persistent fears that foreign hackers might try to undermine the vote.

But he drew the ire of the Trump White House over a website run by CISA dubbed “Rumor Control” which debunks misinformation about the election, according to the three people familiar with the matter.

White House officials have asked for content to be edited or removed which pushed back against numerous false claims about the election, including that Democrats are behind a mass election fraud scheme. CISA officials have chosen not to delete accurate information.

In particular, one person said, the White House was angry about a CISA post rejecting a conspiracy theory that falsely claims an intelligence agency supercomputer and program, purportedly named Hammer and Scorecard, could have flipped votes nationally. No such system exists, according to Krebs, election security experts and former U.S. officials.

On Twitter, U.S. Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, wrote: “Chris Krebs has done a great job protecting our elections. He is one of the few people in this Administration respected by everyone on both sides of the aisle. There is no possible justification to remove him from office. None.”

Krebs has steadily shot down rumors of fraud in recent days, including retweeting leading election security expert Matt Blaze, who for years has warned of specific vulnerabilities in election gear, when the professor wrote that “no serious evidence has yet been found or presented that suggests that the 2020 election outcome in any state has been altered through technical exploitation.”

Gregory Crabb, chief information security officer for the U.S. Postal Service, which was also under pressure over misinformation about mail-in ballots, said: “From my view on the election frontlines, Krebs was a great partner and deserves accolades for his work.”

Days Before Election, Hammer (HAMR) and Scorecard Were Predicted To Be Used

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