Republican county clerk indicted in voting-machine breach, arrest warrant issued

> In August 2021, employees in the secretary of state's office "became aware that a series of confidential digital images of Mesa County Dominion Voting Systems (DVS) equipment and related passwords had been published on the Internet," the indictment said. The leaked data "included images depicting a proprietary hard drive with unlawfully downloaded/imaged software from Mesa County's election management server's hard drive," and "unique Basic Input/Basic Output (BIOS) confidential passwords necessary to conduct a 'trusted build' systems upgrade."

These morons should absolutely go to prison. Let’s be clear: there is a difference between being genuinely concerned about the processes around securing of digital voting machines and deliberately leaking actual confidential information to further a kooky conspiracy theory. These people are absolutely unqualified for their current roles and I am glad the Criminal Justice system is catching up with them.

> leak of voting-system BIOS passwords

Why would this be needed for analysing the software? This sound more like encouraging others to hack them.

> Knisley had an IT employee shut off the surveillance cameras in the election offices.

Actually, this sound like they first tried to tamper with the machines themselves

> Peters introduced them to a man she called Gerald Wood. ... But the real Gerald Wood apparently wasn't there.

Or bring in some unknown hacker to do it?

>But Wood testified ... that he never received a YubiKey that was assigned to him, ...

Sounds like this was much more than leaking proprietary information. They actually planned to hack these machines and blame it on Wood if detected.

As they say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. What's first prize here? Ten years in the pen?

Voting software should be open source.