Leaked voting machine BIOS passwords may implicate Q-friendly county clerk

[DBoon]

Last week, Ron Watkins—conspiracy theorist, QAnon enthusiast, and former 8chan site admin—released photocopies of an installation manual for Dominion voting machines. The copied pages gave basic instructions for configuring BIOS passwords (necessary to change some system settings) and iDRAC, a standard network remote control tool (which the manual explicitly requires the administrator to disable).

The next day, Watkins released a video purporting to be from a "whistleblower" exposing Dominion's "most egregious lie"—that Dominion can remotely administer the machines, he said. He also released several screenshots of Election Management Systems hardware his "whistleblower" had access to.

Although none of Watkins' screenshots—which will be immediately familiar to anyone who's ever administered enterprise-grade hardware—are as damning to the voting machines as Watkins would clearly like, they did end up causing problems for one of Watkins' fellow travelers: county clerk Tina Peters of Mesa County, Colorado, whose office manages the machines in question.
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In response to the leaked BIOS passwords, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold issued an executive order—as reported by the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel—requiring the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder's office to supply surveillance videos and documents showing how and to whom the BIOS passwords were leaked.
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Pat Poblete of the Colorado Springs Gazette reports that Peters isn't responding to Secretary of State Griswold's order to turn over equipment, surveillance footage, and documents. Instead, Peters flew to South Dakota, where she addressed a so-called "Cyber Symposium" hosted by election conspiracy theory enthusiast and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/08/8chans-ron-watkins-scores-a-major-own-goal-with-leaked-bios-passwords/

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Ha!

Pillow guy symposium sounds like a good place to round up some criminals.

[dalton99a]

2. "I am being persecuted," Peters said Tuesday night

[AZSkiffyGeek]

3. Yeah, she's gonna enjoy a lawsuit from Dominion

And hopefully some jail time.

[zuul]

4. Rut roh. She got some 'splainin' to do!

[FSogol]

6. Lock her up!

[Bongo Prophet]

8. Persecuted? No.

Prosecuted? Hopefully.
Time will tell.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. More on this story from Tim Miller:

When the official shared this “bombshell” video with CodeMonkey Watkins they included in it an image of their election system’s BIOS password, which is, of course, a massive breach of voting system security.

And in doing so they stepped on a pretty large rake – because the password in the video was unique, which allowed the Colorado Secretary of State’s office to identify which county the leak came from and during which meeting it was recorded.

Oops.

https://www.thebulwark.com/voting-machine-tampering-is-coming-from-inside-the-maga-house/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

[zuul]

9. Oooooh boooy, is she in some deep doo doo. Ya hate to see it.

NOT! I love it! Justice is finally coming!

“If it’s what you say, I love it, especially later in the summer.”

[fescuerescue]

7. Which election is this regarding? The stolen 2016 Election or the legitimate 2020 election?

They should really specify.

[zuul]

10. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Really! Be more concise when discussing the repubes and their election malfeasance.