Overly stressing "preventative maintenance" and a dubious explanation for why the "battery is not necessary".
Does removing the battery for a long enough period of time wipe the memory or otherwise prevent normal operation of the machine, making it harder to audit the machine?
Removing the battery sounds like a pretext for spoliation and evidence tampering, not like "preventative maintenance"
yep. reminds me of pulling a CMOS battery, which results in the PC losing all BIOS configurations and time/date. Similar configs could be lost here that would important to a fraud case - like an IP address whitelist or an address to upload voting data to.
I'd say something that may still in the RAM, ex images or ballots showing 'it has been given to X by the system' while paper copy is on Z
Settings, seen the type of devices, i would think (not sure) are on a sort of NVRAM (non volatile) as used in switches and business IT equipment that prevents configs to be loosed upon a power failure
Or they may just want to plug on a JTAG port with the system 'offline' to reflash the firmwares
Overly stressing "preventative maintenance" and a dubious explanation for why the "battery is not necessary".
Does removing the battery for a long enough period of time wipe the memory or otherwise prevent normal operation of the machine, making it harder to audit the machine?
Removing the battery sounds like a pretext for spoliation and evidence tampering, not like "preventative maintenance"
yep. reminds me of pulling a CMOS battery, which results in the PC losing all BIOS configurations and time/date. Similar configs could be lost here that would important to a fraud case - like an IP address whitelist or an address to upload voting data to.
That’s the plan, I bet. It’ll remove otherwise hard date/timestamps.
I'd say something that may still in the RAM, ex images or ballots showing 'it has been given to X by the system' while paper copy is on Z
Settings, seen the type of devices, i would think (not sure) are on a sort of NVRAM (non volatile) as used in switches and business IT equipment that prevents configs to be loosed upon a power failure
Or they may just want to plug on a JTAG port with the system 'offline' to reflash the firmwares
Many interesting stuffs indeed