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That's impressive broadly speaking, but not terribly useful unless you have unfettered access to the machines for that length of time.
Security measures on the machines aren't supposed to just be in the hardware/software. They're also supposed to be locked up and tagged, so that any physical tampering is noted when they are used again.
If you've got teenagers who have breached that first level of security, it's much bigger news that what they managed after hours of manipulating a device in the open.
Like the bomb threats in all the polling places on election Day in all the swing states?
Definitely a good example. Also, the prosecutions against black voters in Houston districts unleashed by Ken Paxton in 2020 and 2022.
The machines in November had network access.
Why would they need network access? Just have it record the numbers onto a portable drive then upload the results somewhere else that has access.
Is it too much work for poll people to transfer a usb stick to a laptop at the end of the day?
LOL I was replying to you literally saying the hacking demo at Defcon, where they had the physical machines right there in the room, was "not terribly useful unless you have unfettered access to the machines." I'm saying that wouldn't have mattered in November because they were networked.