<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Ray, <br></div><div><br></div><div><b>I have a question about this <span>Engineer Change Order (ECO) for ES&S voting machines that was sent out on 9/10/24, just before the election.<br></span></b></div><div><span><b><br></b></span></div><div><span><a href="https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/ECO">https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/ECO</a> Analysis ESS 1188.pdf</span></div><div><span><b><br></b></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Per the submitted ECO, the configuration.ini file created during install of Electionware Additional Reporting module is a unique file for each customer install. Because this file is unique to each customer install, this file needs to be listed as a dynamic file in order for the hash verification results to match.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I read on a Substack that <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><span>By changing the .ini
file to dynamic, </span><strong><span>hash testing would still be
successful even if new network paths or hardware connections were
present at the time of audit or testing.</span></strong></div></blockquote><div><p><span>If that is the case, then this was an approved update that undermined the security of the software. Do you agree with that assessment? <b><br></b></span></p><p><span>Thank you.<br></span></p></div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span></span></font></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span><p style="margin:0.1pt 0in"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">Kind
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