Obviously these batshiat insane people don't even understand the function of routers in an IP network. That they are demanding the county hand over their routers (or "images of their routers") shows just how incredibly nuts they are. The most laughable statement is that without the routers "the election is itself effectively un-auditable". This audit is a complete circus.
Do you also think that the below excuse is complete bullshiat? That refusal came in the form of a letter on Monday from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office that cited "a significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as well as numerous federal agencies."
We need to audit the power plug of the routers. Are they two prong, or grounded three-prong? It makes a difference.
Please explain the below statement. That refusal came in the form of a letter on Monday from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office that cited "a significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as well as numerous federal agencies."
So, like a VPN setup on the router wouldn't matter and who accessed a potential VPN is completely irrelevant?
You are comparing it to a plug. According to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office the routers are a significant security risk to law enforcement. You compared the routers to a plug. Do you also think that the plug is a significant security risk to law enforcement? Or, is your previous post just another example of false equivalence?
I can only assume that the county has a common government IP infrastructure which is centralized in a local government domain like most counties/cities in the U.S. This allows lower cost via centralization of network services and a common security approach. Clearly this is much better than every county/city office doing their own thing. There is no reason to be handing over routers -- thereby disrupting other county services such as policing (would you like the 911 call center to go down?) and also possibly exposing to the public (via the audit findings) the internal networking configuration used by other county departments (e.g. policing, finances, etc.) so hackers can take advantage of it. This demand for the routers shows how absolutely insane this "audit" is.
Oh, well, that is good because they were only planning on handing over virtual images. Secondly, you made a ton of assumption to arrive at your conclusion. Do you know for a fact that the routers that there were no VPNs setup on the routers? If you don't, you are literally just making shit up and acting as though you have facts. https://arizonadailyindependent.com...hholding-routers-demanded-in-senate-subpoena/ LaRue’s letter explains that county officials had planned to provide the Senate’s audit team with virtual images of the requested routers, but are not yet sure it is possible to “safely produce router information related to the November 3, 2020 election” without compromising security for criminal justice agencies.
The fuqqing routers contain the VPN configuration, they don't contain the internet activity -- these events are sent to other monitoring systems. The router reports internet activity to separate computer systems dedicated to event reporting (Netflow, OPSView, Solarwinds. etc.) These activity records have already been provided to the "audit" as per other articles. However the clowns appear to be stupid to understand how routers or network monitoring work -- much less be able to parse and understand basic network event logs.