what I don't really understand is how any of this other than hacking into actual voting machines could be considered a crime.
Digital communications are not secure and you have no expectation of privacy, everyone knows this, so how can any such data be proprietary? Our intelligence services gather, store, review and monitor all forms of digital communication and activity from everyone in this country as well as everyone in the world who uses the infrastructure. They don't need a search warrant to look in your email account, facebook, medical records, remotely access your phone, navigation system in your car, your remote power meter on your house, they have legal, (yet unconstitutional) access to anything hooked into the grid or cloud which sends data. They may not be able to use the information against you in a criminal proceeding without a warrant, but its easy to reverse engineer a warrant after you have already seen the evidence you need to justify.
this is how it works in the real world; when your a cop or in a group of cops, and you have a car on the side of the road you want to look inside of because you suspect a crime, but have no evidence of such crime and no witnesses are around, do you waste time getting a warrant not knowing if anything will be found, or if the car is unlocked do you search it first find what you are looking for and then reverse engineer a warrant?
How do you think this really works in many situations? Many times when I was a cop I have seen this, I might of even participated in it a time or two, do you want to spend a couple hours getting a warrant for nothing? Or do you feel better about spending the time if you already know what you are going to find? Just sayin.
Edited by RICH G (07/14/18 09:06 AM)