Ex Military Intelligence Showing Vulnerabilities in US Voting System [pdf](courtlistener.com) |
Ex Military Intelligence Showing Vulnerabilities in US Voting System [pdf](courtlistener.com) |
and 75 hashed passwords available in TOR nodes:
What does this technobabble even mean?
Dominionvoting is also dominionvotingsystems.com
The anonymous author uses a screenshot from the Way Back Machine from 2011 to connect the 2 domains. There's one massive problem with this assertion. The current dominionvotingsystems.com domain was registered on 5/28/2020:
Domain Name: dominionvotingsystems.com
Registry Domain ID: 2530599738_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2020-05-26T15:48:58Z
Creation Date: 2020-05-26T15:48:57Z
The anonymous author makes no effort to explain this obvious and glaring discrepancy. The entire basis for what ever it is he's alleging hinges on this connection. The rest of the information presented it spurious, irrelevant and relies on broad, completely unsubstantiated assumptions. For example:
A search of the indivisible.org network showed a subdomain which evidences the existence of scorecard software in use as part of the Indivisible (formerly ACORN) political group for Obama
Wow, got all that from a subdomain? That's his 'evidence'? To top it off he never even tries to explain what this Scorecard software has to do with anything.
This Dominion partner domain “dvscorp”
This entire connection is based on the fact they're hosted by the same ISP but again never explains what it had to do with anything other than there's a Chinese domain with the same name? Again like every other reference never explains how it connects to anything else.
The author is going in 20 directions at once but never gets anywhere. Hell who is this person? Since when can you present an anonymous affidavit and declare yourself an 'expert' without presenting any credentials? This is pure insanity. If you believe this I have a bridge in New York for sale. Contact me for details.
Here's how I understand some of his points, and willing to be corrected:
- and 75 hashed passwords available in TOR nodes => I interpret it as he can find passwords available to login these systems. Is this plausible? Does that show the system could be vulnerable, or not really?
- dominionvotingsystems.com domain was registered on 5/28/2020 => this only show it was registered again, correct? The redirection from dominionvotingsystems.com cease to exists sometime between 2011 and 2020, that's true.
- This Dominion partner domain “dvscorp” => I thought the key is that the same domain is hosted on the same server hence have some relation. But I could be wrong, that all of these are just hosted by the some ISP service, and somehow the ISP would cohost unrelated domain on the same IP or server/VM.
His stated credentials: I was an electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence with experience gathering SAM missile system electronic intelligence. I have extensive experience as a white hat hacker used by some of the top election specialists in the world. The methodologies I have employed represent industry standard cyber operation toolkits for digital forensics and OSINT, which are commonly used to certify connections between servers, network nodes and other digital properties and probe to network system vulnerabilities.
I found an "expert" affidavit that shows the name (Navid Keshavarz-Nia):
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905...
Wonder if this one shows more merit so we can get on track to discuss if there's some serious vulnerabilities. It is more high-level though.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hammer-scorecard-vote-coun...
Actually, it is.
If you actually bothered to read the filing, the person swearing out the affadavit is definitely Dennis Montgomery, peddling false links to foreign entities as well as unsubstantiated and previously debunked misinformation.
Which he's been doing for decades, only now he has a new crop of suckers.
Will lookup this guy.
"I was an electronic intelligence analyst under 305th Military Intelligence"
Which doesn't really say a whole lot, because the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion[0] is:
"part of the United States Army's 111th Military Intelligence Brigade located at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. It consists of three companies: A-Alpha Company, B-Bravo Company, and C-Charlie Company. The battalion's mission is primarily to train Initial Entry Training Soldiers for Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) 35F - All Source Intelligence Analyst, and 35G - Geospatial Imagery Intelligence Analyst."
That group is a training battalion, not actively engaged in intelligence activities.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/305th_Military_Intelligence_Ba...
Here's an "expert" affidavit that shows the name (Navid Keshavarz-Nia):
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905...
At least I want to know whether the system is really vulnerable, since if it is, it can go either way. Perhaps this should be another thread :)
Some additional information regarding the affadavit you referenced. It's a blog post[0] from the developer of the tool used in documenting the "evidence" contained therein.
Just to clarify, I didn't go looking for this. I ran across it while perusing the "new" submissions here on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=smicallef).
[0] https://medium.com/@micallst/misusing-osint-to-claim-electio...
In sum, I can now see that this affidavit drew weak connections and made strong conclusions. So the credibility of the allegation is not that high. But to be fair to the person, it is court filing and he will be accountable for lying.