Is there any cyber nerd here who can explain why the routers are critical when they have had the better part of a year to potentially adulterate them? I’m not well versed in their inner workings so hopefully they are not likely to be tampered with.
The routers can reveal how the network in that building was configured. They can also keep a history of commands and changes that were done on the physical router.
It would show if there was VLANs or firewalls that were properly or improperly setup to prevent or allow network traffic from coming in or going out from specific internal subnetworks that all the election stuff was allegedly connected to. I think they know the election stuff was connected to the LAN, they just need proof that stuff on that LAN could potentially access the outside world
However, logwise the physical routers alone probably would not have any usable logs as too much time has elapsed - routers don't tend to be setup to store logs (they don't have massive storage space). Logs are usually setup to goto a syslog server and I am unsure if that was also in the scope of the subpoena.
The other stuff they had asked for in the subpoena like splunk logs and etc I can't speak on.
I'm not a techie, but I suspect the Senate made legal demand for the routers for two reasons:
It would be nice to have them, for the complete picture, but the physical routers are not crucial to proving the crime.
Good chance the county board would refuse to turn them over. Why? Only one reason explains why: withholding evidence of a crime. Withholding evidence of a crime is also a crime.
By making the demand, either they get additional evidence of the crime (even though other evidence already proves it), or they allow the criminal co-conspirators on the board to commit an additional crime.
Either way, the Senate has a no-lose position by making the demand. This agreement also has the county board dropping their bogus lawsuit, which would only waste time and money anyway.
One thing nobody is talking about: The Maricopa County board CAVED when the AG withheld money to their board, and not one second before.
The only question left at this point: Is the appointed Special Master going to provide for a real investigation, or will he also become a criminal co-conspirator?
The legal angle sounds logical. As this was a forensic audit afterall. If the machines were connected to the local network LAN (also maybe mobile WAN but thats another issue) then if you want to forensically trace all aspects of the election the network equipment used needs to be inspected. Wires, routers, switches, wireless repeaters, firewalls.
Anything and everything to see if there was an intrusion of any kind that would affect that network the machines were connected to.
Is there any cyber nerd here who can explain why the routers are critical when they have had the better part of a year to potentially adulterate them? I’m not well versed in their inner workings so hopefully they are not likely to be tampered with.
The routers can reveal how the network in that building was configured. They can also keep a history of commands and changes that were done on the physical router.
It would show if there was VLANs or firewalls that were properly or improperly setup to prevent or allow network traffic from coming in or going out from specific internal subnetworks that all the election stuff was allegedly connected to. I think they know the election stuff was connected to the LAN, they just need proof that stuff on that LAN could potentially access the outside world
However, logwise the physical routers alone probably would not have any usable logs as too much time has elapsed - routers don't tend to be setup to store logs (they don't have massive storage space). Logs are usually setup to goto a syslog server and I am unsure if that was also in the scope of the subpoena.
The other stuff they had asked for in the subpoena like splunk logs and etc I can't speak on.
I'm not a techie, but I suspect the Senate made legal demand for the routers for two reasons:
It would be nice to have them, for the complete picture, but the physical routers are not crucial to proving the crime.
Good chance the county board would refuse to turn them over. Why? Only one reason explains why: withholding evidence of a crime. Withholding evidence of a crime is also a crime.
By making the demand, either they get additional evidence of the crime (even though other evidence already proves it), or they allow the criminal co-conspirators on the board to commit an additional crime.
Either way, the Senate has a no-lose position by making the demand. This agreement also has the county board dropping their bogus lawsuit, which would only waste time and money anyway.
One thing nobody is talking about: The Maricopa County board CAVED when the AG withheld money to their board, and not one second before.
The only question left at this point: Is the appointed Special Master going to provide for a real investigation, or will he also become a criminal co-conspirator?
The legal angle sounds logical. As this was a forensic audit afterall. If the machines were connected to the local network LAN (also maybe mobile WAN but thats another issue) then if you want to forensically trace all aspects of the election the network equipment used needs to be inspected. Wires, routers, switches, wireless repeaters, firewalls.
Anything and everything to see if there was an intrusion of any kind that would affect that network the machines were connected to.