CISA And AT&T Pushed Connecting Elections To FirstNet, Mark Zuckerberg Paid FirstNet Bills, FirstNet Infested With Hackable Chinese Components
This article originally appeared on JoeHoft.com and was republished with permission.
Guest post by David and Erin Clements
Recently, we broke the story that a nationwide cellular network for “public safety” called FirstNet was being used to connect election systems throughout the country.
Previously, it was believed that there could be no centralized national access to the precinct-level election equipment because the disparate networks and equipment used in each voting jurisdiction would make centralized spying or hacking too unwieldy. The existence of FirstNet blows that theory out of the water.