You don’t necessarily need to manually set PXE to boot first. For instance, if you are imaging a Dell pc, if you hit F12 on boot you can manually pick the boot device, whether PXE or USB stick or specific drive. Dell Can also Preconfig the bios at the factory to enable PXE boot so that it would show as enabled when you hit F12 by default. While interesting, there is an element of plausible deniability here.
You can also run DHCP of a small toaster or even pocket pc computer off a dumb switch which would collect no logs and scurry the server out the back door without anyone being the wiser. Routers can also not be set up to collect logs so that potentially can be a trap as well. If it contains basic logs you might see some SYN/ACK handshakes with either external public addresses or internal private addresses. This would probably require sone explanation if the machines were not to be networked at all.
But a few plug yanks on the ethernet runs with a direct run or a dumb switch in my scenario and no one would be the wiser. If I was going to attempt to pull this off, I would put a different configuration and boot off a USB drive. The fact that they insert drives for vote dumps means the process is already expected. If the scenario presented was put in place as suggested to PXE boot, thats a whole lot of extra steps that doesn’t seem very intuitive and overly complicated.
A alternate boot to a usb drive with a vote shaving algorithm would in my mind be easier to get away with. Drive goes in pocket and in the trash after the tallies are uploaded. This is just me riffing of course, not knowing how this all works with these machines. I assume there has to at least be some sort of central database that even a hand recount would catch if votes were being flipped or weighted
Yes, all these methods of initiating a network boot are possible. However, we don't need to explain how they PXE booted the server, we just need to explain why we're looking at photos confirming PXE was enabled. It didn't come from factory that way, which would be easily verifiable through the service tag. Dominion may be corrupt and careless, but paying the manufacturer to customize the BIOS of their election management systems to boot from a network may be too stupid even for them.
I do think they were probably booting "servers" in other locations through USB. But in some regions they wanted to push the WMI remotely because their regular foot soldiers on the ground were not the best and brightest. Think Ruby Freeman and her daughter.
Anything is possible, but I am questioning this as some sort of smoking gun. There still has to be some continuity of data rather than a separate system or there’s a huge gap a hand recount will
Immediately uncover…
You don’t necessarily need to manually set PXE to boot first. For instance, if you are imaging a Dell pc, if you hit F12 on boot you can manually pick the boot device, whether PXE or USB stick or specific drive. Dell Can also Preconfig the bios at the factory to enable PXE boot so that it would show as enabled when you hit F12 by default. While interesting, there is an element of plausible deniability here.
You can also run DHCP of a small toaster or even pocket pc computer off a dumb switch which would collect no logs and scurry the server out the back door without anyone being the wiser. Routers can also not be set up to collect logs so that potentially can be a trap as well. If it contains basic logs you might see some SYN/ACK handshakes with either external public addresses or internal private addresses. This would probably require sone explanation if the machines were not to be networked at all.
But a few plug yanks on the ethernet runs with a direct run or a dumb switch in my scenario and no one would be the wiser. If I was going to attempt to pull this off, I would put a different configuration and boot off a USB drive. The fact that they insert drives for vote dumps means the process is already expected. If the scenario presented was put in place as suggested to PXE boot, thats a whole lot of extra steps that doesn’t seem very intuitive and overly complicated.
A alternate boot to a usb drive with a vote shaving algorithm would in my mind be easier to get away with. Drive goes in pocket and in the trash after the tallies are uploaded. This is just me riffing of course, not knowing how this all works with these machines. I assume there has to at least be some sort of central database that even a hand recount would catch if votes were being flipped or weighted
Yes, all these methods of initiating a network boot are possible. However, we don't need to explain how they PXE booted the server, we just need to explain why we're looking at photos confirming PXE was enabled. It didn't come from factory that way, which would be easily verifiable through the service tag. Dominion may be corrupt and careless, but paying the manufacturer to customize the BIOS of their election management systems to boot from a network may be too stupid even for them.
I do think they were probably booting "servers" in other locations through USB. But in some regions they wanted to push the WMI remotely because their regular foot soldiers on the ground were not the best and brightest. Think Ruby Freeman and her daughter.
Anything is possible, but I am questioning this as some sort of smoking gun. There still has to be some continuity of data rather than a separate system or there’s a huge gap a hand recount will Immediately uncover…
Agreed. We're filling in those gaps with theories until the real evidence is available, but CM said today will happen soon.