You have to be smart enough to know that software can be changed from afar right?
I sure whomever certified these machines would be able to catch any all backdoors into these right?
I mean they are all software experts on these right?
People who do not understand hardware can say something like, it can be manipulated from afar.
If you connect up a machine to a network and allow access to the programming via a download, yes you can manipulate a machine from afar.
But if you isolate the machines, and block update abilities, they become 100% secure.
The problem with interconnectivity is it opens up vulnerabilities, but you stop a lot of this by adding in manual steps.
It is a simple administration function. It is also impossible on the outside to know their security procedures and to be honest, we should not be able to get access to such things.
It is true that almost all the internet aware hardware can be hacked. But equally with the right fire walls and blocks you can limit this quite easily. It is always a game of cat and mouse. Now if you think a cyber security guy does not know this basic issue, over such a sensitive thing as an election, you got to be nuts. If access was this open, so I for instance could connect in, that would be security negligence. And unfortunately such oversights are possible.
Once people reported a memory drive was not uploaded to the central count suggests to me they isolated all the machines to work in isolation with a manual transfer of totals on a memory devices so vulnerabilities were at a minimum.
God bless you