Reply #25: If compromised, the hardware must be replaced to resecure, [View All]

so why bother with even using the hardware for voting systems.

I just posted in LBN more information about how the Naval War College has been compromised for several weeks and that they are probably replacing the hardware completely. Even that is not enough if you can't secure the hardware manufacturing and delivery because pre-infected hardware is really hard to detect (video card, disk controller, network controller).

The DoD is aware that if you don't start by securing the chip foundries (now mostly offshore), you really can't be secure. Actually, you need to start with the chip design phase (think what you can hide in a modern microcoded cpu chip). In the past when the US controlled much of the technology, we had a big advantage doing things like shutting down telephone and computer systems around the world. Not anymore.

Think about being able to disable the US's command and control or weapons systems using trojaned hardware that has been dormant for years. Or controlling our elections.