What does CodeMonkeyZ's big technical announcement from the past few hours re: the discovery that the voting machines could boot a different version of their PXE OS via network? THIS. The machines could boot clean during an audit... but run logic from a "central command" during an actual election! - The Great Awakening

What does CodeMonkeyZ's big technical announcement from the past few hours re: the discovery that the voting machines could boot a different version of their PXE OS via network? THIS. The machines could boot clean during an audit... but run logic from a "central command" during an actual election! (media.greatawakening.win)

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– parallax_crow 26 points 3 years ago +27 / -1

Context for the less technical.

PXE stands for Pre eXecution Environment

It is basically virtual discs on a server somewhere.

You configure a computer to 'PXE Boot' in the BIOS and it will check the network for a PXE server, load whatever image the server sends it, and boot off of that.

Staying objective and removing my personal feelings from it, PXE booting such a sensitive machine leaves a significant risk surface if there is not some sort of validation conducted on the server side post-deployment.

If you want to experiment with PXE yourself to understand this better check out FOG https://fogproject.org/

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– solarsavior 8 points 3 years ago +10 / -2

Tons of computers are set up to boot this way by default. Having not found a device to boot from on the network they will then look to see if they have a disk to boot from.

Negligence or intended? You decide. To me, it's not a smoking gun.

Note that it would be difficult to boot a computer (with a fat OS like Windows) over the Internet as the bandwidth would be too low. PXE boot is normally done on a LAN where there is fast network access.

Edit: DHCP is also necessary to use PXE.

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