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Government Corruption
FBI Conceals Chinese Infiltration of U.S. Election Software
2022-09-09
In a live chat released on Monday, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, appeared together on "truethevote.locals.com" to discuss their 15-month involvement with what was characterized to them as a "counter-intelligence operation" with the Federal Bureau of Investigation into American election company Konnech Inc.

Konnech, which is based out of East Lansing, Michigan, builds software to manage the poll workers, poll locations, campaigns, assets, and supplies necessary to run elections in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

In January 2021, Phillips said that the cyber analyst he had been working with encountered an "oddity in some of the URLs" such as vote4la.com, vote4detroit.com, and vote4boston.com, which Konnech’s "PollChief" software application used to gather personally-identifying information about poll workers.

Using Binary Edge, a software product companies use to identify and assess the risk of cyber breaches, "We began to look at where do these URLs actually resolve to. We found that most of them resolve to one IP address and that IP address — the URL resolved in China," Phillips said.

"What we also learned in our review, apps.konnech.com [.net], resolved into this same URL in China, meaning that the application itself was residing in China," he continued.

"In Binary Edge, you can figure out what type of database they are using, their database port, and all the different services offered by ports in this particular application living in China. It turned out that not only did it live there, but they left the database open."

This database "stored the personally identifying information of over a million Americans," he emphasized.

Engelbrecht and Phillips decided that "this was a major national security risk" and immediately took the information to the FBI.

More at the link, you should read it in full.
Posted by:The Walking Unvaxed

#10  Unsurprising.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2022-09-09 18:45  

#9  Georgia election breach: What we know

Computer experts, election security experts warn of 'serious threat' to Georgia voting machines
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-09-09 13:33  

#8  The weaponized EFBEYE on full display. Protecting the surreptitious Chinese technique to keep the Puppet Show in power and control their future plantation.

The key paragraph in the article:
"In April 2022, Engelbrecht received a call from one of the FBI agents, who informed her that the FBI’s “Washington D.C. headquarters” was now involved in the investigation.

Engelbrecht described how everything changed after this call, “There was no more goodwill, there was no more let's work together, the script had been flipped, and now we were the target,” she said. “That was a very disturbing call.”

"...that the D.C. office was now trying “to figure out how you guys broke the law to find all of this”.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-09-09 11:26  

#7  Yes Ebbo, the classic intelligence community work-around.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-09 09:59  

#6  Reminds me of the FBI using the Brits to spy on Trump.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735   2022-09-09 09:35  

#5  and immediately took the information to the FBI.

"You have done the right thing.
Very good. And thank you so much."

Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-09 08:20  

#4  This report should have the most extensive dissemination possible.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672   2022-09-09 08:04  

#3  
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-09-09 07:10  

#2  Evidence stored next to Hunter Biden's laptop.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621   2022-09-09 02:40  

#1  Engelbrecht and Phillips decided that “this was a major national security risk” and immediately took the information to the FBI.

Something akin to confronting the Free Range Hen with eggs found in the pasture.

I suppose we will be expected to believe our own tech oligarchs, Deep State, and intelligence community had no involvement in, or knowledge of this whatsoever.

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-09 02:35  

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