(05-24-2021, 04:11 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: https://justthenews.com/accountability/s...judges-feb

I'm asking a friend of mine, who is a network engineer, about the legitimacy of the claims of county officials that this would compromise their networks. As far as I can tell, the only purpose the routers would serve is to show if the machines where online at the time and where the data was going if that turns out to be the case. Seems worthy of investigation.

(05-24-2021, 04:26 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(05-24-2021, 04:11 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: https://justthenews.com/accountability/s...judges-feb

I'm asking a friend of mine, who is a network engineer, about the legitimacy of the claims of county officials that this would compromise their networks. As far as I can tell, the only purpose the routers would serve is to show if the machines where online at the time and where the data was going if that turns out to be the case. Seems worthy of investigation.

The routers, depending on the type and model could be highly sensitive up to the point of being "classified material".  It would be one thing if the routers were used solely for election purposes.  It's another thing if they handled other types of traffic.  IF they are turned over as evidence they would need to be handled with the upmost security practices.  Many people don't understand just how much valuable information can be obtained from examining certain kinds of routers.

The router doesn't contain any sensitive data. The router doesn't store packet data. At most you could show routing tables, from and to ip addresses, and any firewall rules. You aren't going to have packet level data though, so there is no chance of any sensitive data about people being leaked. You could discover some potential undercover person connecting to their network or something like that but that would be highly suspect. These are not live routers, they just want to prove the traffic that was flowing went through them.

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