Please correct me where I'm mistaken.
* This password list has been public for a long time, and is easy to access: hidden excel column on a public spreadsheet.
* BIOS access means the intruder can change boot devices, boot their own OS, infect the BIOS with a virus, change boot devices back, compromise the vote host OS.
* Keycard security isn't tight security. Any amature physical penetration tester would just use a primitive attack on the door to get around it. E.g.: Grab the handle from under the door with a wire. Youtube has a ton of examples.
* This could have been done months ago, and over a long period of time.
* The intruder could clean up logs and any other traces of their actions.
Where am I technically wrong here? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. It sounds like what you would do with BIOS passwords if you wanted to do something nasty. I haven't seen these questions addressed anywhere.
I hear some people say "but we use paper ballots". Then why do you have a BIOS password? If it's all paper where does the computer fit in? All of this is honest curiosity, I'm not sure how the voting system works.
* This password list has been public for a long time, and is easy to access: hidden excel column on a public spreadsheet.
* BIOS access means the intruder can change boot devices, boot their own OS, infect the BIOS with a virus, change boot devices back, compromise the vote host OS.
* Keycard security isn't tight security. Any amature physical penetration tester would just use a primitive attack on the door to get around it. E.g.: Grab the handle from under the door with a wire. Youtube has a ton of examples.
* This could have been done months ago, and over a long period of time.
* The intruder could clean up logs and any other traces of their actions.
Where am I technically wrong here? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. It sounds like what you would do with BIOS passwords if you wanted to do something nasty. I haven't seen these questions addressed anywhere.
I hear some people say "but we use paper ballots". Then why do you have a BIOS password? If it's all paper where does the computer fit in? All of this is honest curiosity, I'm not sure how the voting system works.