• brvslvrnst@lemmy.ml
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    “These things can run Doom!!” is not the example of vulnerability I was expecting lol

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    This is the most amazing hack of all time. Don’t you see? They got Doom to run in Trump’s head.

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      He’s scared that the Republicans are going to get swept in November and is desperately searching for a reason/way to block or cancel them.

      This seems like a joke but what is happening is fucking dangerous. The more desperate they get the more deadly the outcome.

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    Trump has no idea what he’s talking about, but it is a serious issue if these voting machines are still in-use.

    A voting machine should be a dumb embedded system. If it can run doom, they did something very, very wrong.

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      You can run Doom on some DSLRs. These days, it can be hard to find bottom-end hardware that can’t be made to run Doom.

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          It sounds like you don’t know how tech works.

          That the hardware can run some software is not an indication that it is flawed or vulnerable in any way.

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            I was an embedded systems lead professionally lmao

            Microcontrollers can be locked down and have fuses burnt so you cannot reprogram them

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              So you don’t ever get to update them or fix bugs without entirely new hardware… yeah, all the counties around the country can afford that.

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                This is a voting system, not a sign at the bus stop

                Security is paramount

                It shouldn’t even be electronic in the first place

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                  You say that as if you know the setup of how computers are used in elections. You should check your county, to see if you can get certified as an election observer. It’s very educational.

                  The computers used in elections have highly controlled inputs: no network cards, disabled USB ports, very restricted access by limited, accountable people. They are constantly tested for accuracy, with everything logged and inspected. Security is the most paramount thing, and you’re talking like only you care about it.

                  Human counting is far less accurate, so the “no computer” notion is just stupid.

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        yeah, I looked it up-- you need 4 MB of ram and a 80386 processor to run doom, which was released in 1993. A crummy pixel phone processor is about 3500 times faster than a 80386. And a low end computer today has at least 8 gb of memory, which is 2000 times 4 mb.

        This cheapo TI-30XA calculator for $9.99 on amazon has roughly the same MIPS rating (million of instructions per second) as a 80386 processor from that era.
        https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Instruments-TI-30Xa-Scientific-Calculator/dp/B00000JBNS/138-5956401-1751427?psc=1

        I’m not shocked that a voting machine has the same capability as a $9.99 calculator. Its probably the cheapest processor they can find.

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    “we cant trust the electronic voting machines! Immigrants stuff paper ballots! You’re not allowed to mail in vote!”

    …sooooooooo how do we vote? Oh we just don’t and you decide who won I guess? That seems to be the goal.

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    This is so fucking funny.

    I’ve been watching friends play Doom on any number of devices, including calculators and flippers and such, for decades.

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      Yes, and to be fair it is a security breach. Sure there are memes. I’ve booted Doom on some stupid things in the past, just to see if I could. But national security isn’t the place for memes. If someone has managed to boot Doom on one of these, it means they accessed it with some sort of storage that was previously plugged into an external system.

      A dirty USB drive breaks any kind of air gaps that may have been implemented for security. Computers in secure military facilities are actually configured to instantly bluescreen whenever anyone plugs an unapproved device into them, (and you’ll quickly be surrounded by very grumpy soldiers who will not-so-gently “escort” you to your boss’ office before you get court martialed). The forced kernel panic (blue screen) is specifically to prevent a rogue device from accessing anything on the affected machine.

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        Also this should be a very dumb embedded system. It should not be a general purpose computer capable of running something like Doom.

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      To be fair, if your election system can run doom, its probably a very bad design.

      See xkcd about installing antivirus on a voting machine, compared to a elementary school teacher wearing a condom “just in case”

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      No more Nazis!

      This statement made some people very, very upset before Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus came out for some reason …

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    Okay so what he’s saying is both times he was elected, it was wrong? Just saying, if there’s some ability to do this, and there’s some conspiracy here, why did he win twice?

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      No, quite the opposite.

      He’s saying that his win in 2016 was fair, because Obama ran a fair election.

      But his loss in 2020 was unfair because he was in charge at the time. He was super corrupt and ran a corrupt election, so his loss was invalid.

      And then in 2024, Biden had managed to repair things and ran another fair election, so Trump’s 2024 win is valid.

      But now that 2026 is on the horizon, he’s now saying that his corruption will prevent another fair election, so when congress flips it will be invalid.

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      He’s also saying that it’s his fault: he was in charge when the election was supposedly stolen. He won when Obama was running things, then again when Biden was. According to him, the election was stolen while he was running the government.