Cyber Implications for Elections (that aren't online)

Part II - Crowdstrike

Now for the events of July 2024.

The assassination attempt on President Donald J. Trump took place on July 13, 2024.

On July 19, 2024, the Crowdstrike outage caused global chaos, the grounding of airlines, computer malfunctions causing them to display the “blue screen of death”, email outages, problems in the banking and healthcare industries and more. Even counties in South Dakota reported being “offline” on July 19.

Those of us who’ve been in the trenches since 2020 may have been a little excited to see Crowdstrike in the national news. The involvement of Crowdstrike in the 2020 election was one of those things that was reported on, but buried in the avalanche of election fraud evidence.

So who or what is Crowdstrike? Listen to what Mike Benz has to say.

Crowdstrike’s about us page features a video montage of news clips of “russian hacking” and critical infrastructure. Please watch HERE.

The Crowdstrike blog also features this article written by Shawn Henry. Shawn Henry is a 24 year veteran former FBI official that Crowdstrike hired to lead it’s subsidiary Crowdstrike Services.

The graphic speaks for itself.

From his career at the FBI, Henry is well aware how private industry at times needs to turn to the FBI and other law enforcement for help when it appears there’s a cyber-intrusion. Espionage might come from nation states or criminals out to steal business or government secrets, and the more the private sector is equipped to defend itself, the better. “The private sector needs to be proactive,” Henry says.

He doesn’t expect CrowdStrike to get any special treatment from the FBI or others in government simply because of his personal experience in these types of investigations. CrowdStrike is based in San Francisco, but Henry will be leading its services division from an office in the Crystal City area of Arlington, Va., which is near the Pentagon and just outside of Washington, D.C.

Near the Pentagon?

Then there’s this:

Crowdstrike is partnered with DHS, CISA, CIS and a vast network of Federal agencies and NGO’s to “protect our elections” such as CISA announced HERE.

“The JCDC presents an exciting and important opportunity for this agency and our partners – the creation of a unique planning capability to be proactive vice reactive in our collective approach to dealing with the most serious cyber threats to our nation,” said CISA Director Jen Easterly. “The industry partners that have agreed to work side-by-side with CISA and our interagency teammates share the same commitment to defending our country’s national critical functions from cyber intrusions, and the imagination to spark new solutions. With these extraordinarily capable partners, our initial focus will be on efforts to combat ransomware and developing a planning framework to coordinate incidents affecting cloud service providers.”

The initial industry partners that are participating in the JCDC include Amazon Web Services, AT&T, CrowdStrike, FireEye Mandiant, Google Cloud, Lumen, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and Verizon.  This is only the beginning, as the JCDC will strive to include private sector and SLTT partners from across sectors as our focus areas expand.  Government partners include the Department of Defense, U.S. Cyber Command, the National Security Agency, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, with Sector Risk Management Agencies joining the effort as we move forward.

You may remember Jen Easterly was directly involved in CISA’s unconstitutional censorship of free speech, particularly any social media posts that promoted distrust of the 2020 election results that the powers that be labeled mis, dis and mal information.

Crowdstrike is tied in deep into the complex spiderweb of our federalized elections. Below is an MOA from Lancaster County, Nebraska tying the EI-ISAC, CISA, and CIS to Crowdstrike.

The July 19 elections in Arizona were affected by the Crowdstrike outage.

Microsoft Windows and Azure platform users experienced problems that were addressed by CISA HERE. The Microsoft Azure platform is used to host TotalVote, the statewide voter roll and election night reporting system created by Bpro out of Pierre, SD, (now owned by Knowink) and used in many states across the country, including Arizona.

Another interesting connection we found in the tangled web of NGO’s is this:

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) contracted with Crowdstrike for endpoint security services. CIS is the NGO that deploys the Albert Sensors, which are now embedded in all 50 states elections jurisdictions to monitor internet traffic for “the identification and reporting of malicious events”. Albert Sensors also use the Microsoft Azure platform, which allow for live monitoring of election data with an open backdoor into election networks for two way data transfer, which means it can be manipulated by anyone with access.

You can read more about albert sensors HERE, HERE and HERE.

No doubt there will be much more coming to light on this topic, but for now we have:

1. The the FBI and CISA said the November elections are going to experience cyber attacks and election results will not be reported in a timely manner.

2. America’s cyber defense agency is pre-admitting failure for the November election cycle but telling us not to worry about having an information blackout. They also contract out election security to Crowdstrike through CIS, which just caused a global computer outage, which allowed bad actors to leverage the opportunity.

3. CISA suggests organizations ensure robust cybersecurity, when those experiencing the problems contracted with the governments recommended security partner - Crowdstrike.

   

4. The web of Federal agencies and NGO’s that organized, stole and censored the 2020 election have now announced they are ramping up efforts to do the same in 2024. Read article in the Federalist HERE. We have definitely noticed an uptick in censorship on Fakebook.

We are in way over our heads. The only way to regain control of our elections is one day voting, in person with a photo ID, hand counted paper ballots in the precinct. Anything less is participation in the communist take over of America.

Pray for our country.

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Romans 8: 31-39

Luke 2: 2-3 There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.