1/In the 'you gotta be kiddin' me" department: Politico is reporting that voting computer vendor ES&S is asking for a congressional investigation of the DEFCON election hacking village.
2/In a letter to Senators Harris, Warner, Collins and Lankford, ES&S deflected an Intel Committee question about whether they would submit to testing by raising the specter that foreign adversaries were infiltrating the hacking village.
3/I guess they didn't notice that DHS and state election officials were among the most active at the village. Eric Geller Reports:
4/"The letter, dated Aug. 24 and provided to POLITICO today, represents the small but powerful voting vendor industry’s latest attempt to cast aspersions about the independent hacker community, which has fiercely criticized vendors for their opposition to transparency."
5/ ES&S employees are open about their inability to engineer adequate security safequards, but ES&S wrote: "“any assertion that our products are not thoroughly and independently tested, or that we do not allow election agencies to arrange testing, is erroneous.”
6/I personally love the idea that "election agencies" would need the permission of ES&S to test the systems. #Dieselgate
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