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I really hope I'm reading this wrong, but it looks like the key takeaway here should be that an official responsible for security completely subverted their res

I really hope I'm reading this wrong, but it looks like the key takeaway here should be that an official responsible for security completely subverted their responsibilities, allowed unauthorized access, and disabled monitoring... and the only reason anyone found out is one of their co-conspirators broadcast the resulting access all over the internet. If the only way a bank (or its depositors) knew the bank had been robbed was if the robbers told everyone they'd robbed that bank, would we consider the bank secure, no matter what consequences employees faced? There seems to be a fundamental failure of process with no plans to actually improve security in the future.

sylens 5y ago
It was my understanding that going into the symposium, the issue of Mesa County’s machines was already on the radar and there was an active probe into Peters
- rsfern 5y ago
  That’s correct, because a certain conspiracy theorist published “smoking gun” screen caps of information on the voting systems in question, and there was unredacted information that led back to Mesa county. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/8chans-ron-watkins-scores-a-major-own-goal-with-leaked-bios-passwords/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/8chan... Edit: I’ve read the OP from NPR more closely and it says the investigation predates this episode and was triggered by an unauthorized person showing up in some logs