To summarize the shills and doomers: (who may be correct for all I know)
“Computer experts”, which I am not, are saying this is a nothing burger because of the nature of this “bios” function being a fundamental part of all computers I guess. Kind of like a technical loophole.
Dominion would be able to say this is never switched to “on” for network capabilities and all computers have this embedded into the code or something.
But that seems pretty shilly.
It’s true we’ve all known the machines are connected to the internet for like 8 months now, but we need evidence. This LOOKS like evidence to lay-people but can it be used?
If codemonkey has a whistleblower and the keys to the system and can show it was connected to the internet, that is all huge IMO. These machines aren’t supposed to have that capability at all.
I hope I don’t regret it but I trust codemonkey. This isn’t the big reveal but it’s a part of it, that’s for sure.
Well, BIOS is fundamental. It's basically the low level operating system that allows the main OS to communicate with the computer hardware, controlling things like clock speeds, memory frequencies, processor virtualization, where the OS boots from, even how fast the fans move.
Some computer hardware does support remote boot over the network (controlled through BIOS) and of course, multiple system images (much similar to when you run both windows and OS X on a Mac.)
It's certainly possible there was another OS on there that could read and write to the disks that were used by the primary voting software.
I run my own server. It hasn't been plugged into a monitor, keyboard, or mouse in years. It's plugged into a power cord, and an Ethernet cord, that's it. Everything is controlled remotely - read, write, and delete files. All that's required is an ethernet connection. I have about 1/10000000th of the budget and knowledge of the people that deployed the voting systems.
To summarize the shills and doomers: (who may be correct for all I know)
“Computer experts”, which I am not, are saying this is a nothing burger because of the nature of this “bios” function being a fundamental part of all computers I guess. Kind of like a technical loophole.
Dominion would be able to say this is never switched to “on” for network capabilities and all computers have this embedded into the code or something.
But that seems pretty shilly.
It’s true we’ve all known the machines are connected to the internet for like 8 months now, but we need evidence. This LOOKS like evidence to lay-people but can it be used?
If codemonkey has a whistleblower and the keys to the system and can show it was connected to the internet, that is all huge IMO. These machines aren’t supposed to have that capability at all.
I hope I don’t regret it but I trust codemonkey. This isn’t the big reveal but it’s a part of it, that’s for sure.
Well, BIOS is fundamental. It's basically the low level operating system that allows the main OS to communicate with the computer hardware, controlling things like clock speeds, memory frequencies, processor virtualization, where the OS boots from, even how fast the fans move.
Some computer hardware does support remote boot over the network (controlled through BIOS) and of course, multiple system images (much similar to when you run both windows and OS X on a Mac.)
It's certainly possible there was another OS on there that could read and write to the disks that were used by the primary voting software.
I run my own server. It hasn't been plugged into a monitor, keyboard, or mouse in years. It's plugged into a power cord, and an Ethernet cord, that's it. Everything is controlled remotely - read, write, and delete files. All that's required is an ethernet connection. I have about 1/10000000th of the budget and knowledge of the people that deployed the voting systems.