Figures. FOIA
response,
purporting to provide the agenda pages
of the Committee's Presidency and Plenum meetings since the March 2015
election and to January 02, 2019 - a total of 12 meetings. The Committee failed to provide authentic records; instead it provided a letter, outlining the records.
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a)
Validation and certification by a State employee - FOIA
request sought an authentic record, duly signed by a State employee.
The Committee failed to provide such record. Instead, the Committee
provided false statements - "the systems were validated and
certified by the Agency [RE'EM-Shin-Bet - jz]". However,
following flat denial by the Shin-Bet, the Committee stated that it
did not have the required validation and certification by a State
employee.
Figures.
Top
- the
Committee's FOIA
response falsely stated that "the Agency
[Re'em-
Shin-Bet- jz]
validated and certified the
Committee's
IT
systems". Bottom
-
the
Shin-Bet flatly denied such claims, "Shin-Bet
is not the guiding authority for
the Committee, and therefore it is not the certifying agency for its IT
systems either".
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b)
Authorities and permissions - in
response on FOIA request regarding persons, who hold authorities and
permissions to post-election outcomes in the Committee's web site
- the Committee initially provided a false response,
attempting to generate false representation that it was a fully
automated, no-human-touch process, "...the results are published
in a mechanized manner"... However, following presentation
to the Committee of false election-outcome data, which had been
posted in the Committee's web site, the Committee stated that someone
uploaded the wrong data file...
Figures. Top - the Committee's FOIA response refused to name the persons, who held authorities and permissions to publish the election outcome on the Committee's web site. Instead, the Committee created a false representation of a fully automated process. Bottom - example of false election outcome data, which were published on the Committee's site. After such data were presented, the Committee claimed that someone uploaded the wrong data file.
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c)
Compliance with lawfully binding security standards - in
response on FOIA request, the Committee stated that it had no
certification of compliance with IT security standards, required by
Israeli law.
d)
Corrective measures - following
repeat publication in wide distribution regarding critical failures
in the Committee's validity, integrity and security, journalist Ben
Caspit published in November 2018 a report, titled, "Cyber
attacks increasingly penetrating Israel's politics" [the
Hebrew title was "Is the Israeli election susceptible to
fraud?"]. The report announced that the Committee Chair -
Justice Hanan Melcer, " has
already delved into the depths of the issue" and initiated "the
establishment of a multilayer cyber-protection system". In
response on another FOIA request, the Committee denied any
relationship to Caspit's report, and also denied the existence of any
records, which documented the initiation of any corrective measures.
Figures. November 2018 report by renowned Israeli columnist Ben Caspit.
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Mr
Caspit has failed to respond on repeat requests for comments on this
matter.
LINKS
[1] 2018-11-07 Cyber
attacks increasingly penetrating Israel's politics |
Al-Monitor
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/11/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-cyber-attack-twitter-elections.html
[2] 2019-01-02
- For the first time ever - Shin-Bet is running security background
checks on the Central Election Committee | Kan - Israeli public news
TV
https://twitter.com/kann_news/status/1080529230943920129
[3] 2016-06-14 ISRAEL:
Computer fraud in the Central Election Commission? Where is the
Shin-Bet? |
OpEdNews.com
https://www.opednews.com/articles/ISRAEL-Computer-fraud-in-by-Joseph-Zernik-Election-Fraud_Israel_Netanyahu_Shin-Bet-160614-259.html
2017-01-18 Computer
fraud in the 2015 election in Israel? Shin-Bet Head Nadav Argaman is
asked to clarify |
OpEdNews.com
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Computer-fraud-in-the-2015-by-Joseph-Zernik-Election-Fraud_Shin-bet-170118-124.html
2017-02-16 Shin-Bet
implicates the Central Election Committee in serious computer fraud |
OpEdNews.com
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Shin-Bet-implicates-the-Ce-by-Joseph-Zernik-Election-Fraud-170216-822.html
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