Voting machines in Wisconsin and Kentucky are running FTP. Seriously.

Voting machines in Wisconsin and Kentucky are running FTP. Seriously.

This seems to be criminally negligent. "FTP -- the "file transfer protocol" -- is a long-supplanted Unix tool for transferring files between computers, once standard but now considered to be too insecure to use; so it's alarming that it's running on the voting machines that will be used in elections in Wisconsin and Kentucky tomorrow. The FBI has warned that "criminal actors" use FTP in targeting US voting machines. The Wisconsin Elections Commission and DHS have reported hacker attacks on Wisconsin voting machines in the 2016 elections. Propublica portscanned the voting machines in Kentucky and Wisconsin, which are connected to the fucking internet, and found FTP services being advertised by servers on the machines. Kentucky's voting machines did not require a password to access their FTP servers."