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.
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.