The_Noble_Cause wrote:Monker wrote:My God, you obviously know absolutely nothing about IT or how complex systems work.
I figured you would say that to cover up your idiocy. Tell me again how it spread on a "connected system" but doesn't need the internet.
You are so clueless that I feel like I'm talking to a 12yr old. I did not reply to that bit because it is so ignorant of you to ask that it would take far to long to explain. But, whatever.
At work, I log on to my laptop. My laptop has NO access to the internet. It is that way INTENTIONALLY. But, when I log in, I also log in to corporate LAN. That gives me access to various systems connected to the LAN, the payroll service, Email service, various systems that I need to develop applications.
Therefore, if I plug in a USB drive that has Stuxnet, it will infect my laptop and eventually spread to all system connected to that laptop. Also, if I take the laptop home and connect it to the internet and get infected by Stuxnet and then take it back to work, it would also infect the connected systems.
Therefore, if one of those systems was the control system for the centrifuges, it would be infected without ever being exposed to the internet. If one of those systems was used to load software into the voting machines, it would get infected and eventually the voting machines as well.
You sound like Senator Ted Stevens describing the web as "a series of tubes."
And, you sound like a layman who does not know the difference between the internet, intranet, and a LAN, and how they are used in business...Or, my God, how a LAN is used in PC gaming, or connecting X-Boxes together.
I am making perfect sense - you are just too ignorant to understand.
Wait. Hold up. Just earlier you said the idea of it being a thumb drive was "making up stories." The fact of the matter is, nearly all accounts of the Stuxnet/Iran story say it was spread via a thumb drive. As with everything else, you have no clue.
I said it would spread to various media...that includes USB Drives, CD, DVD's R/W, Blu-Ray R/W, externam hard drives, portable hard drives. Or, as I said above, a corporate laptop taken home. Or, an Email phishing scheme.
All of these are made up stories.
Monker wrote:But, MY POINT is that once delivered, that given system DOES NOT NEED TO BE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET. Period. That given system could be the control system for the centrifuges, or it could be the control system that loads the software for voting machines.
In order to spread throughout other machines, it would. Otherwise, you are talking about Russian agents tampering with memory cards of individual machines.
You are absolutely WRONG. See my first comments above. In fact, if things were connected to the internet, there would be no need for a USB Drive.
Monker wrote:If you do not believe that this is possible, you are INCREDIBLY NAIVE and think you know shit that you obviously are completely ignorant of.
Nah, I believe in facts.[/quote]
No, you don't. You have no idea what you are talking about and you believe in the stuff you are just making up as you go. Those "alternative facts" (lies) are the basis for your "alternative" reality (fantasy) which you believe is based on "facts". You fuhrer does the exact same thing...and that is a HUGE problem. Trump is a nut and so are his t-Virus infected zombie followers.
There were limited recounts of the election (see Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), the results don't back you up. Furthermore, officials pushing the Russia collusion myth all agree that voter tallies were not impacted.
I never said this happened in the election. In fact I said it didn't. YOU said infecting voting machines with a virus was impossible. I said it wasn't, and it isn't impossible. In fact, I would be very surprised if Russia isn't using Stuxnet and trying to modify it to do exactly what I am saying. All it has to do is take every 10th vote for a (D) and change it to an (R)...that would move 10% of the vote and almost guarantee a win for the Republicans.