Not even really rooted. PXE boot has been around for decades. Since at least the mid to late 90's if not longer and now is certainly in every PC BIOS out there. The thing about PXE boot is all configuration files and logs are kept on the PXE server and not on the machine that is booting from it. The machine that boots just looks like a regular host and can then reboot from the local drive and no one would be the wiser. It would be great if they found the actual PXE server they may have booted the voting machines from.
Yeah rooted is more about taking over a unix OS from the inside. What they did is leave a clean OS on the machine and use network booting to load an OS that they control completely ... but only on election night. They tried to play a shell game and got caught.
Really what this boils down to is a basic truth of all computers... physical possession... being at the console... you are god, period end of issue. Sense they made and setup the machines its the same thing. The people who would have put a stop to this... election boards/workers 99.99% of the time don't have the skill set to see/fix this type of thing or they are politically motivated to turn a blind eye.
This is a mess, but the good news is they have clearly been caught.
If I were to rewrite that post again, I would change "No one would notice" to "An untrained eye would not notice." During boot, when PXE is enabled, there is a black PXE screen indicating it's trying to talk to a remote server. If a user doesn't know what it means, they won't remember it after the boot progresses.
Kek...Didn’t wanna add too many things to distract from what the tweet was in the post but yes 7/31 is a day/2 day prior to when that info was made available I’m sure to CM. So yeah still wondering about the post don’t know how to find it.
That's a legit explanation. Similar to booting a computer from an OS located on a flash drive or other external medium.
I learned about this type of function about a decade ago. interesting stuff
The mother daughter gang had a USB key caught on camera.
So, they "rooted" the voting machines. Nice...
Not even really rooted. PXE boot has been around for decades. Since at least the mid to late 90's if not longer and now is certainly in every PC BIOS out there. The thing about PXE boot is all configuration files and logs are kept on the PXE server and not on the machine that is booting from it. The machine that boots just looks like a regular host and can then reboot from the local drive and no one would be the wiser. It would be great if they found the actual PXE server they may have booted the voting machines from.
Yeah rooted is more about taking over a unix OS from the inside. What they did is leave a clean OS on the machine and use network booting to load an OS that they control completely ... but only on election night. They tried to play a shell game and got caught.
Really what this boils down to is a basic truth of all computers... physical possession... being at the console... you are god, period end of issue. Sense they made and setup the machines its the same thing. The people who would have put a stop to this... election boards/workers 99.99% of the time don't have the skill set to see/fix this type of thing or they are politically motivated to turn a blind eye.
This is a mess, but the good news is they have clearly been caught.
That is very interesting. Please, tell me more.
Probably because the router has a log of the server's MAC address leasing an IP and talking to an external network.
If I were to rewrite that post again, I would change "No one would notice" to "An untrained eye would not notice." During boot, when PXE is enabled, there is a black PXE screen indicating it's trying to talk to a remote server. If a user doesn't know what it means, they won't remember it after the boot progresses.
Just searched posts for pixie and 4270 has a tweet from Pixielicious731 that now doesn’t exist. Anyone know what it said? u/#q4270
731 was the date that CM acquired/promised this???
Kek...Didn’t wanna add too many things to distract from what the tweet was in the post but yes 7/31 is a day/2 day prior to when that info was made available I’m sure to CM. So yeah still wondering about the post don’t know how to find it.
It’s a possibility.
https://researchbuzz.me/2018/12/17/a-couple-of-quick-bookmarklets-for-viewing-a-suspended-deleted-twitter-user/
I had tried wayback and got nothing. Figured someone on here would have an explanation.
Also, to clarify, I'm not an insider. I just work for a company that makes a tech product.