Well the thing that always sticks with me about “the nerds” is that each state runs its own elections and as such, has multiple election cybersecurity teams all over each state. The idea that they had what amounts to literally thousands of these nerds all over the country that all were in on it, all used zero-day exploits that were unknown, and all kept their mouths shut is just, well… it’s definitely bordering on absurdly impossible for that many people to be involved and no one is popping off with evidence. Further security teams aren’t just one person, so it would have to be every single person on every single security team and if there is one thing nerds with security credentials take seriously, it’s security!
You’re misunderstanding the topology, go read that again. They just needed a map of machines and polling stations(thanks Russia those hacks where you did “nothing” may have yielded Intel). If you targeted just the swing states I don’t see any reason you’d need more than a dosen warm bodies. Can clean up most of those lose ends later, they don’t all have to be smart, skids like big balls can deploy an exploit.
Well the thing that always sticks with me about “the nerds” is that each state runs its own elections and as such, has multiple election cybersecurity teams all over each state. The idea that they had what amounts to literally thousands of these nerds all over the country that all were in on it, all used zero-day exploits that were unknown, and all kept their mouths shut is just, well… it’s definitely bordering on absurdly impossible for that many people to be involved and no one is popping off with evidence. Further security teams aren’t just one person, so it would have to be every single person on every single security team and if there is one thing nerds with security credentials take seriously, it’s security!
You’re misunderstanding the topology, go read that again. They just needed a map of machines and polling stations(thanks Russia those hacks where you did “nothing” may have yielded Intel). If you targeted just the swing states I don’t see any reason you’d need more than a dosen warm bodies. Can clean up most of those lose ends later, they don’t all have to be smart, skids like big balls can deploy an exploit.