CISA Advisory On Dominion Imagecast X Released While Halderman Report Remains Sealed
US Media Ignores Calls To ‘Blacklist’ Smartmatic In Philippines After 2022 Cyber Breach, 2022 Election Equipment Failures
By Mary Fanning | June 4, 2021
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency dropped a document yesterday – late on a Friday afternoon – titled Vulnerabilities Affecting Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X.
CISA, which claimed that the 2020 US election was secure, now admits that Dominion’s ImageCast X has cyber vulnerabilities. CISA also claims that those vulnerabilities have never been exploited.
CISA admits in it’s advisory that:
“The tested version of ImageCast X does not validate application signatures to a trusted root certificate. Use of a trusted root certificate ensures software installed on a device is traceable to, or verifiable against, a cryptographic key provided by the manufacturer to detect tampering. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to install malicious code, which could also be spread to other vulnerable ImageCast X devices via removable media.”
According to Dominion’s website, the ImageCast X is “Configurable – Available as a Ballot Marking Device, or Direct Record Electronic” [DRE] system
CISA was forced to admit to the vulnerabilities affecting the ImageCast X after Alex Halderman, a University of Michigan professor of computer science and engineering, revealed those vulnerabilities during a court case.
J. Alex Halderman, University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
The judge in that case, Amy Totenberg, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, sealed Professor Halderman’s report.
Judge Amy Totenberg is the sister of Nina Totenberg, a legal affairs correspondent for far-left National Public Radio (NPR).
By sealing professor Halderman’s report, Judge Amy Totenberg is allowing DHS and CISA to take control of the narrative about the vulnerabilities affecting Dominion’s ImageCast X
The Washington Post first reported on the CISA advisory, before it was released.
Halderman was featured in the 2020 HBO documentary “Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections” that was released on March 26, 2020.
Even though HBO’s “Kill Chain” documentary revealed that equipment provided by several major election technology vendors to election precincts throughout much of the United States were capable of connecting to the internet, social media companies censored content after the November 2020 election that made similar claims that some election equipment was capable of connecting to the internet.
CISA’s new advisory also states:
Exploitation of these vulnerabilities would require:
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- physical access to individual ImageCast X devices,
- access to the Election Management System (EMS), or
- the ability to modify files before they are uploaded to ImageCast X devices.
Local election officials, in many cases, had “physical access to individual ImageCast X devices,” had “access to the Election Management System (EMS),” and in some cases may have had “the ability to modify files before they are uploaded to ImageCast X devices.”
Former CISA Director Chris Krebs, Matt Travis, Matt Masterson, Kevin O’Prey, and James Clapper
We previously reported in a October 2, 2021 article at The American Report titled “WATCH VIDEO: The Maricopa County Election Audits And The Intelligence Community: The Untold Story”:
Cyber Ninjas proved that the entire narrative of a ‘perfect election’ presented by Maricopa County, Arizona election officials and Maricopa’s two Election Assistance Commission (EAC)-accredited’ auditing labs were more propaganda than science.
Maricopa County contracted with two EAC – accredited ‘auditors,’ Pro V&V and SLI Compliance.
The Election Assistance Commission, part of the U.S. Government, is closely integrated with and routinely coordinates with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA).
CISA, formerly under the control of CISA Director Christopher Krebs, has connections to the U.S. intelligence community through Krebs and Krebs’ associate Kevin O’Prey, and with private intelligence contracting firm DFI International. President Trump fired Krebs after Krebs insisted that the 2020 elections were secure.
YouTube removed from The American Report’s YouTube channel the factual and detailed video that accompanied that report, purportedly for violating “community standards.”
We also previously reported at The American Report in a November 13, 2020 article titled “DHS Cyber Director Chris Krebs And Deputy Director Matt Travis Tied To Clapper Who Commandeered HAMMER / SCORECARD”:
There may be a reason why CISA Director Chris Krebs is denying the existence of THE HAMMER and SCORECARD.
Krebs worked closely with intelligence contractor Kevin P. O’Prey at Obsidian Analysis. O’Prey hired and worked closely with U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper (Ret.) at DFI International. Clapper received a $50,000 exit bonus from DFI then awarded O’Prey’s DFI branch a contract with Clapper’s Pentagon office that oversaw THE HAMMER and SCORECARD.
Clapper illegally commandeered the supersurvillance system THE HAMMER. SCORECARD was one of exploits that ran on THE HAMMER framework and that secretly stole elections.
Clapper was previously caught lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee about unlawful U.S. government surveillance of Americans.
James Clapper and John Brennan illegally commandeered THE HAMMER and SCORECARD less than two weeks after President Obama’s 2009 inauguration.
CIA Contractor-Turned-Whistleblower Recently Weighed In
HAMMER SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
SCORECARD, MEDUSA, DRAGNET, THORSHAMMER, HANNAH, KILLSHOT, COURIER, HANGINGCHAD, SPEARIT AMONG OTHERS PROGRAMS ARE REAL COMPUTER PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO RUN ON THE HAMMER. ANYONE TELLING YOU DIFFERENT IS LYING!
HOW DO WE KNOW? WE BUILT THESE PROGRAMS FOR US GOV UNDER SOLE SUPPLIER CONTRACTS WITH THE CIA, DOD, HS, AF, DIA, DNI, AND OTHERS.
BUILT FOR FOREIGN SURVEILLANCE BUT TURNED ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THEIR BUSINESSES BY SOME BAD ACTORS IN THE US GOVERNMENT.
FOURTH AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS ON A MASS SCALE
Don’t be fooled thinking these FBI/CIA/NSA domestic surveillance programs only collected phone records. These illegal spying programs that targeted Americans collected personal and business documents, financial records, phone records, medical records, internet searches, emails, sms & mms messages, images, login credentials, IRS records, social security information, IP addresses with geolocation information, corporate records, corporate IP, attorney client communications, attorney client documents, voter information, voter records, government communications, classified documents, all collected in these illegal spying programs without a single court order allowing them to collect this information.
These programs hacked Twitter, Google, Instagram, Facebook, and other social media company servers.
2020 Election
US voting machine manufactures and their employees were hacked in illegal FBI/NSA/CIA domestic surveillance programs we worked in. The proof was provided to the DOJ and FBI by a whistle blower in 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2015. The data was also provided to FBI Director James Comey’s general counsel James Baker on 08/19/2015 and 12/03/2015.
Mutual Admiration Club On Twitter: DHS Disinformation Operatives Chris Krebs And Nina Jankowicz
Former CISA Director Christopher Krebs and Nina Jankowicz, who very, very, briefly served as Executive Director of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Disinformation Governance Board, have expressed support for one another on Twitter. Krebs and Jankowicz both pushed disinformation and false narratives while working for DHS.
Britain’s Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, SGO Group, Smartmatic, And George Soros’ Open Society Foundations
Britain’s Lord Mark Malloch Brown, Chairman of Smartmatic owner SGO Group now President of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, admitted during a June 2015 interview (VIDEO) with Philippine TV news channel ABS-CBN, that:
“Yes, part of our technology is licensed from Dominion.”
ABS-CBN HOST: “It [Smartmatic] was never supposed to be allowed to bid in the 2010 elections because it did not actually own the software – Dominion Voting Systems owned the software. Plus the difficulty which Smartmatic had to put the COMELEC [Commission on Elections – Republic of the Philippines] through just in order to access the source code.”
MALLOCH-BROWN: “Well, look. I think that’s competitors who say that. The fact is, yes part of our technology is licensed from Dominion, but you tell me a large technology company which isn’t using in part licenses from other companies. We have a license for the international use of that particular piece of the technology that we employ.”
Decades before Lord Malloch-Brown’s SGO Group/Smartmatic began providing election technology to the Philippines, Malloch-Brown was already deeply involved in presidential elections in the Philippines.
Corazon “Cory” Aquino, who was elected president of the Philippines in 1986, received campaign assistance from Lord Mark Malloch-Brown of the New York-based Sawyer-Miller Group communications consultancy firm. Malloch-Brown’s work on Aquino’s 1986 Philippine election sounded similar to psychological warfare, with Malloch-Brown later boasting that he produced an exit poll that “had a profound impact as it planted the idea that Aquino had won over Marcos, 55 percent to 45 percent.”
Tina Arceo-Dumlao, Business Features Editor at the Philippine Daily Inquirer, reported in a June 29, 2015 article titled “British lord recalls Cory Aquino campaign”:
He [Lord Malloch-Brown] said his final outstanding accomplishment during the Cory campaign was to produce an exit poll that indicated that she had won. It landed on the front page of the Inquirer and had a profound impact as it planted the idea that Aquino had won over Marcos, 55 percent to 45 percent.
“Marcos did not really recover after that. It was a very exciting experience to watch,” Malloch-Brown said.
Aquino Eventually Evicted The U.S. Military From Two Major Bases In The Philippines: Naval Base Subic Bay And Clark AFB
Aquino ordered the U.S. Air Force to abandon Clark Air Force Base, which the U.S. military left in 1991, and ordered the U.S. Navy to abandon U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, which closed in 1992. These were important U.S. military bases during the Vietnam War, and during China’s initial rise toward global superpower status.
US Media Ignores Calls To ‘Blacklist’ Smartmatic In Philippines After 2022 Cyber Breach, 2022 Election Equipment Failures
Philippines-based digital media outlet Rappler reported in an April 26, 2022 article titled “3 men arrested over Smartmatic ‘data breach’”:
“MANILA, Philippines – Authorities announced on Tuesday, April 26, that it arrested three members of a hackers’ group allegedly behind the supposed data breach involving poll software provider Smartmatic,” …
…Smartmatic has bagged a total of P3.119 billion in deals for the 2022 polls, including the P402.725-million contract for the Comelec’s procurement of the automated elections system (AES) software for the May 9 vote.
The poll body withheld part of the payment to Smartmatic, until the tech company is cleared from the breach mess.
The Philippine Star reported in a May 11, 2022 article titled “Poll watchdogs urge blacklisting of Smartmatic; Comelec stands by certification”:
MANILA, Philippines — On Day 3 of the Commission on Elections’ canvassing of votes, poll watchdog groups labelled the 2022 polls a failure that they attributed to election software provider Smartmatic, after widespread technical glitches led to thousands of voters being stranded in their precincts for hours…
…Speaking in an interview aired over ABS-CBN’s TeleRadyo, Kontra Daya convenor Danilo Arao said that all the complaints the group received on May 9 had something to do with the delays caused by the countless glitches around the country.
“This is heartbreaking and this is concrete anecdotal evidence that Smartmatic failed and must be blacklisted. They must be sent out of the country and Comelec must investigate the lapses and problems and not say they are minor problems,” he said.
George Soros, In His Own Words
60 Minutes:
You’re a Hungarian Jew who escaped the Holocaust by posing as a Christian.
George Soros:
Right.
60 Minutes:
And, you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.
George Soros:
Right. I was fourteen years old. And I would say that that’s when my character was made.
60 Minutes:
In what way?
George Soros:
That one should think ahead. One should understand and anticipate events. And one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a very personal experience of evil.
60 Minutes:
My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
George Soros:
Yes. Yes. Yes.
60 Minutes:
Went out in fact and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
George Soros:
That’s right.
60 Minutes:
I mean, that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
George Soros:
Not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t see the connection, but it created no problem at all.
60 Minutes:
No feeling of guilt?
George Soros:
No.
60 Minutes:
For example, that “I’m Jewish and here I am watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I should be there.” None of that?
George Soros:
Well, of course, I could be on the other side. I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken away. But, there was no sense that I shouldn’t be there, because that was, ahh…ahh…
Well, actually, in a funny way, it’s just like in markets. That if I weren’t there — of course, I wasn’t doing it — but, somebody else would be taking it away anyhow. And it was, whether I was there or not, I was only a spectator. The property was being taken away. So, I had no role in taking away that property. So, I had no sense of guilt.
60 Minutes:
Are you religious?
George Soros:
No.
60 Minutes:
Do you believe in God?
George Soros:
No.
No one, in their wildest dreams, could have imagined that the likes of George Soros would be pulling the puppet strings, not just in America, but around the world.
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