Trump officials asked CISA to secretly hack a voting machine — and not disclose any vulnerabilities they found

Towards the start of President Trump's second term, allies in the Department of Homeland Security tasked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) with secretly acquiring a voting machine with instructions to hack it and not tell anyone except the White House about the vulnerabilities they found.

ProPublica, who spoke to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request, noted that the standard practices of CISA require the agency to let manufacturers know of vulnerabilities in their technology, but the political appointees explicitly asked CISA not to.

"My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don't like," one of the former officials told ProPublica. "This goes against everything CISA represents."

CISA asked to hack voting machine​

CISA has been a relentless target of the Trump Administration, with the agency's jobs being cut by one third and the majority of its senior leadership resigning or being fired.

In total, CISA has cut 1,000 jobs since the start of Trump's second term - largely down to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency - with additional cuts to funding in 2027 likely to result in a further 900 jobs being lost.

As a result of these job cuts, remaining CISA employees told the political appointees that the request to hack a voting machine couldn't be fulfilled.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-officials-asked-cisa-secretly-002000564.html

Wish we could find out whatever became of this suspicious request. You would think that if the legitimate reason was to actually ensure voting machine security, it wouldn't have had to be a secret. And what's up with not informing the machine's maker about any discovered issues? Someone wanted to exploit them, perhaps?

signalmankenneth said:

Towards the start of President Trump's second term, allies in the Department of Homeland Security tasked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) with secretly acquiring a voting machine with instructions to hack it and not tell anyone except the White House about the vulnerabilities they found.

ProPublica, who spoke to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request, noted that the standard practices of CISA require the agency to let manufacturers know of vulnerabilities in their technology, but the political appointees explicitly asked CISA not to.

"My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don't like," one of the former officials told ProPublica. "This goes against everything CISA represents."

CISA asked to hack voting machine​

CISA has been a relentless target of the Trump Administration, with the agency's jobs being cut by one third and the majority of its senior leadership resigning or being fired.

In total, CISA has cut 1,000 jobs since the start of Trump's second term - largely down to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency - with additional cuts to funding in 2027 likely to result in a further 900 jobs being lost.

As a result of these job cuts, remaining CISA employees told the political appointees that the request to hack a voting machine couldn't be fulfilled.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-officials-asked-cisa-secretly-002000564.html

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Crazy Trump is desperate, ruthless, and completely unethical, and it's worrisome to what length he will go to save himself.

signalmankenneth said:

Towards the start of President Trump's second term, allies in the Department of Homeland Security tasked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) with secretly acquiring a voting machine with instructions to hack it and not tell anyone except the White House about the vulnerabilities they found.

ProPublica, who spoke to two former administration officials with knowledge of the request, noted that the standard practices of CISA require the agency to let manufacturers know of vulnerabilities in their technology, but the political appointees explicitly asked CISA not to.

"My thought was they could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don't like," one of the former officials told ProPublica. "This goes against everything CISA represents."

CISA asked to hack voting machine​

CISA has been a relentless target of the Trump Administration, with the agency's jobs being cut by one third and the majority of its senior leadership resigning or being fired.

In total, CISA has cut 1,000 jobs since the start of Trump's second term - largely down to Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency - with additional cuts to funding in 2027 likely to result in a further 900 jobs being lost.

As a result of these job cuts, remaining CISA employees told the political appointees that the request to hack a voting machine couldn't be fulfilled.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-officials-asked-cisa-secretly-002000564.html

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Fuck you asshole. You supported the assassination of your president so, fuck you!

Lionfish said:

Fuck you asshole. You supported the assassination of your president so, fuck you!

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The JPP Forum rectum strikes again.

Noking said:

The JPP Forum rectum strikes again.

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Oh, the ironing.

Trump will be gone before 2028. He won't resign like Nixon so Trump will have to be forced out.

This framing seems deliberately misleading. If you're investigating potential vulnerabilities in voting machines, and suspect the manufacturer might be complicit, why on earth would you notify them?

You'd keep the findings confidential while investigating whether those vulnerabilities had actually been exploited.

That's basic investigative practice, not evidence of wrongdoing. Keeping the manufacturer in the dark could be entirely appropriate, depending on what you're investigating.