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In reply to the discussion: Yes or no did Starlink upload, download, or host election data? [View all]lapfog_1
(30,147 posts)Elon owns Starlink, Starlink is used as an internet access point, so Elon allows, say, Russian hackers to create an hack that intercepts packets, assembles them into a conversation between voting machines and state wide or county wide tabulations, changes the top of ticket totals for Trump v Harris... and then passes these packets on to the tabulation programs? All while defeating the VPN technology that someone would likely be using ( thus encrypting each packet along the way ). And doing so without being caught. Oh, and being clever enough to do just enough votes to give Trump the win by 1 to 3 percent.
illegality aside, such a thing might be possible. Depending on how many precincts use Starlink.
I doubt it.
I would not choose this method to hack the election.
The much better place to install the hack is in the tabulation software or the voting machines themselves. You don't have encrypted data to worry about. You have the binary code of the voting systems which is easily turned back into source code, you have 3 years to perfect your hack so it leaves NO TRACE which test runs or audits would show. And so long as there are NOT strictly hand filled out paper ballots that are later hand counted multiple times, all the way up to the publicly reported vote totals at each state... you are home free.
but I get it... Eloon - bad billionaire... starlink - owned by Elon - Starlink is point of access for internet - everyone thinks hacks are somehow related to internet... bingo. But seriously, this would be a lot harder to pull off than simply hacking the software inside the vote machine and taking a few years to get it right.