China apparently has a law that any data found on its Internet belongs to the government, so in effect, China has “custody” of anything that existed on this server used in our elections.
A reasonably likely explanation, therefore, is that Konnech (or maybe a contractor it was using) outsourced work to China, and the US program manager and the Chinese labor programmers it used were grossly incompetent, leaving either test or live production data unprotected on a MongoDB server in China.
We can’t know all the details at this point. But there is certainly reason to suspect that they could, and did, use this information to their own advantage.
What was particularly disturbing was that, when Gregg and Catherine discovered all of this, they tried to do the right thing and get the FBI involved. But because of the politicization of so many Federal agencies, not only was their attempt to inform and involve the FBI rebuffed, but the FBI then attempted to turn things around and make Gregg or his team look like bad guys for having downloaded (from an unsecured server) and come into possession of this dataset of 1.8 Million US poll workers.
Gregg basically did the equivalent of picking up an abandoned hard drive of data left lying openly on the ground in China, and the FBI wants to accuse him for having it in his possession, because of what was found on the drive!
They’re not interested in seeing if that data was misused to hijack our elections by China? Isn’t foreign interference in US elections an act of war?
The Pit was a turning point: a time for Gregg and Catherine to engage a wider community of researchers and journalists into probing the whole spectrum of election integrity issues and engaging the citizenry in ways they need to be—but haven’t yet been—involved.
Without trustworthy elections, our Republic is at risk of being pulled down by those who prefer communism and socialism. We won’t stand idly by. All Americans must find a way to get more involved in the election process; become engaged and involved in protecting and securing our Republic.
China apparently has a law that any data found on its Internet belongs to the government, so in effect, China has “custody” of anything that existed on this server used in our elections.
A reasonably likely explanation, therefore, is that Konnech (or maybe a contractor it was using) outsourced work to China, and the US program manager and the Chinese labor programmers it used were grossly incompetent, leaving either test or live production data unprotected on a MongoDB server in China.
We can’t know all the details at this point. But there is certainly reason to suspect that they could, and did, use this information to their own advantage.
What was particularly disturbing was that, when Gregg and Catherine discovered all of this, they tried to do the right thing and get the FBI involved. But because of the politicization of so many Federal agencies, not only was their attempt to inform and involve the FBI rebuffed, but the FBI then attempted to turn things around and make Gregg or his team look like bad guys for having downloaded (from an unsecured server) and come into possession of this dataset of 1.8 Million US poll workers.
Gregg basically did the equivalent of picking up an abandoned hard drive of data left lying openly on the ground in China, and the FBI wants to accuse him for having it in his possession, because of what was found on the drive!
They’re not interested in seeing if that data was misused to hijack our elections by China? Isn’t foreign interference in US elections an act of war?
The Pit was a turning point: a time for Gregg and Catherine to engage a wider community of researchers and journalists into probing the whole spectrum of election integrity issues and engaging the citizenry in ways they need to be—but haven’t yet been—involved.
Without trustworthy elections, our Republic is at risk of being pulled down by those who prefer communism and socialism. We won’t stand idly by. All Americans must find a way to get more involved in the election process; become engaged and involved in protecting and securing our Republic.
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