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Eric Geller @ericgeller

@ditzkoff what will you be nominated for — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

@AyyEllCee I was told January 2017 as start of certain formal work on the requirements (by @TypeMRT), but of course you're right that broader work started earlier than that — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

These standards have been in development since January 2017, and they're the first major update since the first standards were introduced in 2005, so there's a tremendous amount of "let's just get this done" energy from all sectors of the election community. — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

The EAC's four commissioners will vote on the new guidelines, including the wireless ban, tomorrow morning. I'm told to expect three yes votes (Ds @RedBlue2024 and @benhovland and R @VotingGuy), with the hope being that the second R commissioner, Christy McCormick, will join. — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

Fmr EAC staffer @TypeMRT, who supports the provision, said he was looking to the future, as voting equipment certified to the new standards will take many, many years to emerge. In the next few decades, he said, computer hardware w/o wireless components may practically disappear. — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

Others disagree. @danwallach said paper ballots will serve as a backstop against potential tampering. Wallach, who spent a year working with @voting_works, said “It’s actually quite difficult to order a ... tablet or laptop without any sort of [wireless] radio!” — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

The EAC's approach "leaves open an obvious line of attack, by modifying the software or changing the configuration via a variety of common methods," said Neal McBurnett, an independent consultant who helped draft the provision and pushed for a full hardware ban. — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

Allowing wireless hardware to remain “profoundly weakens voting system security and will introduce very real opportunities to remotely attack election systems,” a group of experts, activists and fmr officials told the EAC in a recent letter I obtained: https://t.co/C5fTL68HGC — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

These guidelines are voluntary for states to adopt, but most have done so. If vendors want to sell them equipment, such as voting machines and scanners, they must get their equipment certified by a federal test lab that uses these guidelines to create their test plan. — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

EAC & NIST (which manages public working groups that recommend new guidelines to EAC) didn't respond to my repeated requests for comment. But EAC posted a memo over the weekend rebutting criticism of new language clarifying the intent of the ban. https://t.co/Ft3gqh3h63 https://t.co/REXHKZO5nh — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

Critics of the compromise point to the AVS WINVote, which VA decertified after it was discovered that turning off wireless in software left the hardware active and vulnerable to exploitation. Zero-click Wi-Fi hacks have been done, even against iPhones: https://t.co/drvy2Fl9pc — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

The wireless ban allows networking hardware in a voting system as long as it's disabled. Supporters say vendors are finding it increasingly hard to find equipment w/o networking components. Opponents say disabling wireless thru software is a faulty half-measure. — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

The @EACgov will vote tmrw on new voting system guidelines that include a compromise measure banning wireless connectivity. The provision, crafted to help vendors, has sharply divided security experts & advocates. My new story (paywall now, free later): https://t.co/Sj8JRn9AHI — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

@Wanderlustin Give — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

she is already too clever for her own good — PolitiTweet.org

now you see me now you don’t hehe https://t.co/IeSyLQ5rkH

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Eric Geller @ericgeller

🙃 — PolitiTweet.org

And in 2013 I wrote about a researcher who used Masscan to find systems using port 5900 (the port used by VNC and T… https://t.co/5reMh6oL9I