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Arizona election auditor: ‘Critically important’ investigators get access to Maricopa County routers

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An auditor helping lead the 2020 election audit in Maricopa County, Arizona, said Thursday that it is “critically important” auditors gain access to a contested set of data machines that the county is refusing to hand over. 

Maricopa County has for months refused to hand over county-owned routers subpoenaed by the Arizona state Senate, despite a judge earlier this year ruling the subpoena valid, effectively ordering the county to comply. 

County officials have claimed that the routers, if surrendered, could constitute a security risk if sensitive data within them is leaked.

At the state Senate hearing on Thursday, one of the lead investigators of the Maricopa audit dismissed those claims and stressed what he said was the pressing importance of obtaining the routers. 

Obtaining the routers is “critically important,” Ben Cotton, the founder of the cybersecurity group Cyfir, told Arizona state officials.  more here

13 Comments on Arizona election auditor: ‘Critically important’ investigators get access to Maricopa County routers

  1. “Routers” or “servers”?

    Help me out: aren’t routers simply dumb devices for switching signals and servers have storage (disc drives) and contain data.

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  2. Sippin Coffee, I haven’t read the article but perhaps security of the routers “external connections” is the problem here:

    “Routers also commonly perform network address translation which restricts connections initiated from external connections but is not recognized as a security feature by all experts.”

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  3. Thank you LBS,

    The article frames the request from a security perspective, it is the professional liar’s response that introduces the “data” red herring.

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  4. “Maricopa County has for months refused to hand over county-owned routers subpoenaed by the Arizona state Senate, despite a judge earlier this year ruling the subpoena valid, effectively ordering the county to comply.

    County officials have claimed that the routers, if surrendered, could constitute a security risk if sensitive data within them is leaked.”

    This is all the validation I need to conclude beyond any shadow of a doubt Donald Trump legitimately won the 2020 Presidential election.

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  5. “Help me out: aren’t routers simply dumb devices for switching signals and servers have storage (disc drives) and contain data.”

    you are thinking of your home or office router. the big dog routers are Ciscos. they have their own operating system, with layer upon layer of security, and a very thick textbook for the OS.

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