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Head of US Cybersecurity Agency Fired

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 19 2020, @03:26PM   
from the retribution-can-be-petty dept.

MostCynical writes:

The Guardian has a story detailing the firing of Christopher Krebs, who served as the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa)

President Trump made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday, saying Krebs "has been terminated" and that his recent statement defending the security of the election was "highly inaccurate".

CISA last week released a statement refuting claims of widespread voter fraud. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the statement read. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."

Krebs, is a former Microsoft executive, and was appointed by President Trump after allegations of Russian interference with the 2016 election.

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• Re:All a matter of perspective... (Score: 3, Insightful) by slinches on Friday November 20 2020, @05:08AM

  by slinches (5049) on Friday November 20 2020, @05:08AM (#1079635)

  Financial processing software code monkeys don't really know what an audit is, do they? Complete audit is an oxymoron. An audit is a representative sampling of a much larger population, enough to find significant problems. 2 million registered voters in Orange County, CA? A proper audit sample of 2,000 should be enough to detect any significant fraud.

  Who is this response targeted at? I'm not a coder at all really. I may have misused the term, but the idea was there that you need to completely purge the voter rolls of ineligible voters before the election to effectively catch voter fraud. Otherwise, their ballot goes into the pile with the rest and even if you later determine that fraud occurred, you can't take back that vote because you can't prove what the vote was. So, no a sample is not sufficient. The voter registration lists need to contain only legally eligible voters.

  Bullshit. My ballot goes missing, then turns up in the tracker as counted when I didn't get it? Channel 10 news here I come, and a squad of auditors checks the signature, postmark, delivery address, payment method used for the P.O. Box (if the fraudster is even that bright), security footage from the post office boxes, etc. And even if the perp gets away, that shit is all over the world news.

  Nope, just another non-credible complaint. You must be another one of those Trump supporters trying to undermine confidence in the election. You'd probably even go so far as to file a provisional ballot in an attempt to vote twice.

  So with the Trump brigade in the room you're suggesting that the poll workers are pulling fake ballots out of their asses to stuff the boxes with? or what exactly?

  How about just being more stringent/lenient on the signature checks based on zip code? You're fairly creative. I'm sure you could think of several other ways to influence the count that isn't easily visible from that distance if you thought about it for a minute.

  So, dirty pool is only allowed on one side of the aisle? Openly stated and illegal are very different things, and the Green party candidates - and people who influenced the balloting process - may have decided that in this particular election their own interests were best served by retiring early, you know like the gaggle of Republitard Presidential hopefuls didn't in 2016?

  Where did I say it was okay for either side?

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