You just said why. Generally, unless you are on a massive, massive network, the same hardware that runs your router is also going to host your DHCP server, DNS server, time server, etc.
So even winding this train of thought back further, they could have changed the time at the server, thus making all the connected devices potentially record events as occurring at a different date/time than they actually did. The whole fact that these voting devices were networks just opens up such a can of worms, it's insane.
Its way beyond insane. I've worked with computers sense I built my 386DX16 in 1990. You gave a pretty good rundown. I'm wondering maybe if they didn't use DHCP and/or other dynamic protocols because they weren't sure they could control that part of the network at all locations like in red counties so they coded it to go to a specific IP or series of IPs. If so then that should provide a real world location that all this traffic went to.
You just said why. Generally, unless you are on a massive, massive network, the same hardware that runs your router is also going to host your DHCP server, DNS server, time server, etc.
So even winding this train of thought back further, they could have changed the time at the server, thus making all the connected devices potentially record events as occurring at a different date/time than they actually did. The whole fact that these voting devices were networks just opens up such a can of worms, it's insane.
Bingo.
Thank you for the explaination
Its way beyond insane. I've worked with computers sense I built my 386DX16 in 1990. You gave a pretty good rundown. I'm wondering maybe if they didn't use DHCP and/or other dynamic protocols because they weren't sure they could control that part of the network at all locations like in red counties so they coded it to go to a specific IP or series of IPs. If so then that should provide a real world location that all this traffic went to.
What a mess.