Botnets that were active in the months leading up to the election but that suddenly shut down. Anyone looking at that?
If Trump or Biden had outside (foreign) help from anywhere it is likely , given the porous nature of our election security that some of the external structures needed to make it work have been dismantled since they are no longer useful.
Maybe security researchers could look at known botnets or intrusions for clues to whether compromised networks aided anyone.
In fairness, there's already clear evidence of attempts to subvert the election via manipulation of the USPS. It's not really an 'extraordinary' claim to suggest that Trump might attempt to manipulate the vote via other means - although I do agree that evidence is required to make the assertion.
>In fairness, there's already clear evidence of attempts to subvert the election via manipulation of the USPS.
Yet you fail to provide said clear evidence.
There were a lot of nonsense allegations made which conflated delays in USPS parcel processing (volume skyrocketing because of COVID19) and flats processing (volume dropping for same reason, and COVID19-related absences), and related logistics adjustment (removing flats processing machines), and normal attrition/adjustment in USPS drop box locations, with "Trump is trying to stop the vote!" I wrote more about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290622 .
unknown|5 years ago
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p1necone|5 years ago
But you're right - evidence is needed of messing with the actual votes, as opposed to just trying to interrupt the counting.
Edit: I'm saying the lawsuit is the meddling, not that there is meddling going on as part of the count.
unknown|5 years ago
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totalZero|5 years ago
Trump especially is a litigious person. Lawsuits are his hammer and every problem is a nail.
wildassguess|5 years ago
If Trump or Biden had outside (foreign) help from anywhere it is likely , given the porous nature of our election security that some of the external structures needed to make it work have been dismantled since they are no longer useful.
Maybe security researchers could look at known botnets or intrusions for clues to whether compromised networks aided anyone.
AlisdairO|5 years ago
TMWNN|5 years ago
Yet you fail to provide said clear evidence.
There were a lot of nonsense allegations made which conflated delays in USPS parcel processing (volume skyrocketing because of COVID19) and flats processing (volume dropping for same reason, and COVID19-related absences), and related logistics adjustment (removing flats processing machines), and normal attrition/adjustment in USPS drop box locations, with "Trump is trying to stop the vote!" I wrote more about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24290622 .