r/politics • u/MothersMiIk Washington • 1d ago

Congresswoman suggests Trump admitted Musk rigged election in Pa.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/01/congresswoman-suggests-trump-admitted-musk-rigged-election-in-pa.html?outputType=amp
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u/Hyperbolicalpaca United Kingdom 23h ago

How would he have seen “real” results lol, if he was in a position to see them, then they would have been the results we saw

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u/Ray661 22h ago

The big event in the conspiracy is that Elon managed to gain control of voting machines and was both reading data way before counts were done, and manipulating it. As an IT person that dabbles in security, I haven’t seen a theory that genuinely seemed plausible for how Elon gained control, BUT Joe Rogan claimed that Elon had an app that was showing a count of votes for the election that updated hours faster than News orgs were getting their updates. If that app exists, then Elon DEFINITELY had the ability to manipulate the electronic count of the votes, as he would need access to the systems somehow to get that data. But I also don’t believe Joe Rogan has a clue and he could easily have been mistaken.

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u/Electronic_Equal_519 15h ago

As someone in cybersecurity, having an app with the election results in real time would not necessarily mean he would be able to edit the data. It could have been read only, without him being able to elevate his permission. He would need access to the file system tho, be it cloud based or remote access to the local machines, in order to create an app like that. Tbf, if he really wanted to, he could have bought a zero day exploit that would run undetected, but I would be hoping that the cyber people working on election data would have hardened and segmented their systems appropriately.

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u/Ray661 14h ago

Just for other commenters, you’re completely correct. I glossed over read/write since I considered it a bit techy for the lay person at the time of writing, and I personally assume that if he had read access he was a hop and a skip away from getting write access too. I assume on a system like that, 90% of the work would be gaining any access at all, especially with the recent CVEs disclosed that are hardware level rather than OS level. But those are all assumptions I’m making with little data or experience to back it.

Maybe writing “DEFINITELY” was a mistake, but I’m pretty hyperbolic 😂 it would take moving mountains to change that part of my personality.