What if the massive DNS attack was related to the Russian connection?

[lostnfound]

Remember the unprecedented massive DNS attack that happened ten days ago?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2016/10/internet-outage-ddos-dns-dyn/amp/?client=safari

What if the election gets disrupted via massive Internet attack (all those machines trying to transmit to central tabulators in electronic voting states)?

What if the Neanderthals (trump vigilantes) are primed and ready to believe that it's our own government - that it's Obama - trying to steal the election? Wouldn't the political divide become fanatical and severe?

Unrelated? Hope so.

Who the hell knows what to believe anymore. In the aftermath of such chaos, the right wing would turn to their "social media" and their Breitbart sites and (Trump TV??). The stock market would not be happy, at all.

What if the motive is not the disruption of an election, but just greed?

[bigtree]

4. voting machines aren't accessible from the net

...and 'tabulators' can be augmented or replaced by other vote-counting methods.

I read where a lot of observers felt the 'attack' could have been perpetrated by any minor league hacker.

[lostnfound]

5. Manual tabulation vote totals would Be slow, creating uncertainty

Slow tabulation would create a lot of uncertainty and feed the anger on the right.

Trump has been priming the pump with "the election is rigged" stories.

There's lots of combustible material out there.

[bigtree]

6. I think our democracy would survive

...kinda like internet users did during the service disruption.

[lostnfound]

11. Did I say it wouldn't?

Nope. Didn't say that.

[Lee-Lee]

7. Election machine not the computers used to tabulate results don't connect to the net

At least not here in NC. A good friend does IT for one county board of elections and was explaining it to me- the computers are purposely air-gapped from the time voting starts until after the results are reported so there is no chance of outside hacking.

The only thing that goes over the net here is the county elections supervisor going to the state Board of Elections website and inputting the election results. And I imagine if it came down to that they could go back to phoning them in like they were doing not that long ago anyway.

No, what they could do is make it harder for Americans to get rapid updates on election results from news sources. But that's about it.

[kentuck]

8. I noticed that Trump did not complain when his Twitter machine went down?

Maybe he knew the reason?

[randome]

10. The DNS attacks & the Russian connections to Trump all point to Putin being an inept ex-KGB.

To think he's actually running Russia now, crippling his country's own economy, reversing Gorbachev's advances and meddling in other countries in a very unprofessional manner, leaving breadcrumbs all over the place -he is no better than Trump, with less personality.

No wonder they like one another.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font][hr]

[blogslut]

13. That DNS attack happened because smart appliances and devices are shamefully insecure.

As several have pointed out, voting machines are not connected to the the internet. But your DVR probably is.