Analysis by Tim Starks with research by David DiMolfetta:
A long-awaited report on the cybersecurity vulnerabilities of election machines in Georgia was finally released alongside another report on Wednesday, but the two sides of a long-running dispute over the security of the state’s election machines can’t agree on what conclusions to draw.
The first report — by University of Michigan professor J. Alex Halderman and Auburn University assistant professor Drew Springall, who helped him — outlined several cybersecurity flaws, the most critical of which they say could be exploited by malicious hackers to change votes and alter election outcomes. Importantly, Halderman said there’s no evidence that the vulnerabilities have actually been used by malicious hackers to change votes or steal an election.
Another report by research nonprofit MITRE — which Dominion Voting Systems brought on to evaluate the Halderman report — downplayed the seriousness of the vulnerabilities, concluding that they were “operationally infeasible.”
Read more at The Washington Post.