By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-31 18:35:03 | Updated at 2024-11-06 22:41:14
6 days ago
Election system passwords mistakenly exposed on Colorado secretary of state’s website
Colorado news line ^ | 10 30 2024 | Quentin Young
Posted on 10/31/2024 10:55:00 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Passwords to Colorado voting equipment were inadvertently exposed when they were posted as part of a spreadsheet on the Colorado secretary of state’s website.
The leak of the information “does not pose an immediate security threat to Colorado’s elections,” according to a press release from the office of Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, who acknowledged the error Tuesday.
Her office described the compromised information as “partial passwords to certain components of Colorado voting systems.”
The leak was revealed in a mass email from the Colorado Republican Party, which said it learned of the leak after an unnamed person sent to the party an affidavit attesting to how the person discovered it. The person said in the affidavit they accessed three times starting in early August a spreadsheet posted on the secretary of state’s website that contains an inventory, which the secretary is required to maintain, of voting system components used throughout Colorado’s 64 counties.
The person said they were able to view passwords to many of the components by right-clicking the worksheet and selecting “unhide,” which provided access to other hidden worksheets. One of the hidden worksheets contained Basic Input Output System — or BIOS — passwords for more than 700 election system components in every Colorado county except Las Animas, the affidavit says. The errant document has since been pulled from the secretary of state’s website.
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(Excerpt) Read more at coloradonewsline.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colorado; electionsystem; mistakenly; passwords; voting
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To: yesthatjallen
"...The errant document has since been pulled from the secretary of state’s website..."
But the credentials stayed the same, so...no problem!
2 posted on 10/31/2024 11:00:56 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: yesthatjallen
But the gold star mom is going to jail. Well, CO.
3 posted on 10/31/2024 11:02:27 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
To: yesthatjallen
Mistakenly? Really? …a freaking corrupt rat in charge of our most important election system who wanted to take Trump off the ballot mistakenly goofed? She needs to go to prison!!!😡
4 posted on 10/31/2024 11:05:10 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
To: yesthatjallen
I know Members of our Armed Services go to jail for mishandling (even just negligently) sensitive information.
Election officials should have the same pucker factor.
Jail.
5 posted on 10/31/2024 11:06:04 AM PDT by suasponte137
To: rlmorel
Dirty fascist Griswold tried to keep Trump off of the ballot.
6 posted on 10/31/2024 11:11:07 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
To: rlmorel
HOW MANY of us here would be fired before our pens hit the floor if we made a mistake of this magnitude at work?
My company would go back in time to fire me and then fire me again in the present :)
That’s what always irks me.
Fed jobs, state jobs, fed and state jobs given to left leaning companies...they could set off a nuke by accident and be given a week off with no pay :)
And they’d get that pay back later on after things cooled off (no pun intended)
7 posted on 10/31/2024 11:14:23 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: yesthatjallen
I tried to tell you, “this is the most secure election ever.”
Doesn’t speak well for all those others, does it?
8 posted on 10/31/2024 11:28:25 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
To: yesthatjallen
Well, if dems are so worried they have to cheat in Colorado, Tuesday’s not looking very good for them...
9 posted on 10/31/2024 11:33:26 AM PDT by apillar
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