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....not to mention this time defying a Judges order.
Maricopa County Refuses to Provide Routers to Election Auditors
"The more they resist, the more guilty they appear. The so called ‘information’ they are protecting is in as much risk in their hands as it is in the hands of the auditors." It seems obvious to me that if they will go so far as to defy a court order that is true. Why would the auditors, Arizona outsiders, be more interested in any information than an unscrupulous Arizona insider?
The county was told late last month, while delivering subpoenaed election materials to the state Senate’s custody, that delivering routers, or even images of routers, “posed a significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as well as numerous federal agencies.”
“By providing the routers, or even virtual images of routers, sensitive data and the lives of law enforcement personnel could be endangered. ( nothing like a little exaggerated overkill )
The subpoenas issued by the state Senate to the county last year say auditors require access or control of all routers, tabulators, or some combinations thereof “in order to garner the system logs.”
The subpoena in question was for electronic machines used in the election. Each machine has a log, or record.
The county tried to rebuff the subpoenas, but a judge in February ruled the county must comply with them.
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office informed former Republican Secretary of State Ken Bennett of the decision this week. Bennett is the Arizona Senate’s liaison for the audit.
“They told me personally weeks ago that they had taken all the routers and the internet connections and the hubs and everything out of the building so they could send it to us, and we would have the logs when we got into those devices, we would be able to see those logs, that nothing was connected to the Internet during the election. And lo and behold, they don’t show up in the equipment that they said would be delivered to us,” Bennett added.
One expert commented.....
Nearly every bit of internet and intranet traffic these days is encrypted. If the county is using a technology that is not, they need to update it now. As for routers… They provide trace bits of info on packet headers, but not sensitive data (if the comms are encrypted). Routers do show routing tables of IP addresses and TCP ports coming and going.
Here is what should happen. The auditors should have a good idea of what IPs and ports they would expect entering the network from the outside and they should have an exact list of IPs and TCP ports for the target devices. Allow a third party IT expert to view the router tables to look through them for the described IP addresses and drill down from there. The full networking infrastructure map should be made available to the IT expert. The auditors do not need to see all aspects of the routers. Basically minimize the exposure to the router data to sworn/non-disclosured IT pros who don’t give a crap about that county’s law enforcement department.
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Maricopa County Refuses to Provide Routers to Election Auditors
"The more they resist, the more guilty they appear. The so called ‘information’ they are protecting is in as much risk in their hands as it is in the hands of the auditors." It seems obvious to me that if they will go so far as to defy a court order that is true. Why would the auditors, Arizona outsiders, be more interested in any information than an unscrupulous Arizona insider?
The county was told late last month, while delivering subpoenaed election materials to the state Senate’s custody, that delivering routers, or even images of routers, “posed a significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as well as numerous federal agencies.”
“By providing the routers, or even virtual images of routers, sensitive data and the lives of law enforcement personnel could be endangered. ( nothing like a little exaggerated overkill )
The subpoenas issued by the state Senate to the county last year say auditors require access or control of all routers, tabulators, or some combinations thereof “in order to garner the system logs.”
The subpoena in question was for electronic machines used in the election. Each machine has a log, or record.
The county tried to rebuff the subpoenas, but a judge in February ruled the county must comply with them.
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office informed former Republican Secretary of State Ken Bennett of the decision this week. Bennett is the Arizona Senate’s liaison for the audit.
“They told me personally weeks ago that they had taken all the routers and the internet connections and the hubs and everything out of the building so they could send it to us, and we would have the logs when we got into those devices, we would be able to see those logs, that nothing was connected to the Internet during the election. And lo and behold, they don’t show up in the equipment that they said would be delivered to us,” Bennett added.
One expert commented.....
Nearly every bit of internet and intranet traffic these days is encrypted. If the county is using a technology that is not, they need to update it now. As for routers… They provide trace bits of info on packet headers, but not sensitive data (if the comms are encrypted). Routers do show routing tables of IP addresses and TCP ports coming and going.
Here is what should happen. The auditors should have a good idea of what IPs and ports they would expect entering the network from the outside and they should have an exact list of IPs and TCP ports for the target devices. Allow a third party IT expert to view the router tables to look through them for the described IP addresses and drill down from there. The full networking infrastructure map should be made available to the IT expert. The auditors do not need to see all aspects of the routers. Basically minimize the exposure to the router data to sworn/non-disclosured IT pros who don’t give a crap about that county’s law enforcement department.
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Maricopa County Refuses to Provide Routers to Election Auditors
Arizona's Maricopa County is refusing to turn over routers or router images to election auditors, defying a judge's ...
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