Almost nobody outside of government jobs and banks actually gets holidays like this off. (So you know, mostly white collar white people) What a fucking joke.
It mostly just fucks with working people's pay schedules, direct deposits, and when they can cash their check.
I mean, the article focuses more on how the UPSes have SNMP enabled network cards.
SNMP is Simple Network Management Protocol, which is for, well, simple network management, not computer administration, which are different things.
SNMP can definitely be an attack vector, so it's generally considered good practice to disable it on any ports it's not absolutely needed. Further, it's mostly able to be abused for DDOS, although there are some possibilities for network penetration. Network, not computer, once again. Controlling the router isn't the same as controlling the Server., although it can help you move towards controlling the Server. Still a lot of hoops to jump through from network to server.
Every election is run on a local level, and this would mean that in enough swing states, one of two things was happening: either the election cybersecurity team in all the states affected was technically incompetent or they were somehow in on it and all kept their mouths shut. Both of those are highly unlikely when it comes to the frequency at which this happened all over the country.
While you generally have a good point about script execution via a UPS, once again, does that mean every single cybersecurity team in every state affected was foolish enough to be giving a UPS administrator script execution capabilities? Because just executing a script doesn't mean the user executing the script has admin rights. Once again, either every team was inept or somehow the famously loose-lipped Trump team was sitting on a zero-day exploit to gain admin access and somehow kept it quiet.
They said that about finding out that Bush signed off on torture. Surprise, the evidence changed nothing. The country slumped on, unbothered by war crimes.
Did the Snowden leaks change anything about the surveillance state? No.
What makes you think this would be any different?
To be clear, I'm not trying to be defeatist, I'm trying to be realistic. As far back as the Snowden leaks philosopher Slajov Žižek wrote about this phenomenon and he, even back then, was convinced that in the modern era, with so much information bombarding us, that evidence no longer mattered. He used the Bush torture leaks and the Snowden leaks as his evidence. I'm certainly not the first person to have noticed this pattern in the modern internet era.
This, they will always say they are going to win even if they're not, they will always say they've won even if they haven't.
See: Musk v. Zuckerberg. Musk acts like he won even though he's a pudgy fat shit and never even stepped into the ring with Zuckerberg. It's projection of power, and people are giving them power by believing it.
Musk and Trump would have said they were winning no matter what. They would have said they won no matter what. If they lost they would say the "mainstream media" lied.
Okay, I will: Fascists will always say they're winning, they're going to win, and they've won, no matter what the reality on the ground is. He would have said the same even if the election went to Harris. Because they project power by promoting the idea that they are strong and perfect and always win and you're inadvertently giving them power by believing it.
He also said he would win in a cage match with Zuckerberg, then claimed Zuckerberg was the one who chickened out.
And they did cheat. They cut millions from voter rolls. They spent more time questioning whether signatures on mail-in voters were valid. They did more gerrymandering. They, in general, did their damnedest to make it harder for people vote. They used disinformation campaigns and foreign actors to influence social media. The thing about it is, they do a lot more of it out in the open than people want to admit. Just like how they weren't hiding Project 2025. Why would they suddenly have the ability to be so tight lipped about just this issue?
Circumstantial evidence is not evidence. Further, this story is about Tripp Lite, which last I checked, isn't owned by Musk. It's owned by Eaton. Gonna have to jump through a lot of mental hoops to connect Eaton and Musk.
Have you ever considered that they would say they were going to win even if they weren't? That part of how fascism and fascists work is by projecting power by never admitting weakness? Saying you're the winner, even after you've lost, is common for both Trump and Musk.
I'm just gonna say it: Everything about everyone involved in this administration screams people who are hired for their loyalty, not their skillsets.
The theory that they used Uninterruptible Power Supplies to modify the vote, and that they had enough people involved to pull this off, yet everyone kept their mouth shut, is not the level of competency I have seen from anyone in Trump's orbit.
As someone with a background in tech, I find it hard to believe. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. They can make up all the stories about they want in their own heads, until there's some proof of it, it's just as bullshit as Trump's claims of election fraud.
If Eaton pushed an update to those UPS units, it could have gained root-level access to the host tabulation environment—without ever modifying certified election software.
So yeah, we're gonna have to have a hell of a lot more to go on than "could have" here. Also I'm skeptical on the claim that Windows automatically trusts any connected UPS and skeptical about the "root level access" claim (including the fact that it is called administrator access on Windows, Windows doesn't have "root" accounts).
Part of the reason I'm skeptical on the root-level access claim regarding a UPS. If you could do this with any old UPS, this would make any and every UPS in existence a major attack vector to every computer and computer network in existence. I find it hard to believe that cybersecurity experts would have somehow missed this in the last 20 years that commercial level UPS's have been in use. That it was just somehow conveniently overlooked that you could override server administration with a UPS. I don't buy that.
EDIT: All this being said, I think a court case to reveal any evidence that is there is important. It's highly improbable but not impossible and so I hope the court case moves forward quickly.
It's my guess that they either have 1) weapons manufacturers donating to them or 2) have weapons manufacturing in their district (which they see as "job creation" for their constituents) or both.
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It says WiFi is "slow" not "off."
I have definitely personally experienced WiFi instability with metals in between the WiFi and a PC.
Looks like possibly enough to make it drop a bunch of packets to me at least.