Election experts say giving Maricopa County routers to Arizona Senate's election auditors could be security threat
Jen Fifield, Arizona Republic
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Routers serve as the mail carrier of a computer network: They deliver messages using maps of networks and computer addresses.
Think of it like a mail carrier who relies on maps and addresses to get mail to the right place.
Given access to the mail carriers' — or routers' — information, it would be easier for a bad actor to get access to a person's mail, or to target the information inside the network.
That's an analogy one tech expert – Matt Bernhard, a research engineer at Voting Works, a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open source election technology — gave while explaining the importance of keeping Maricopa County's routers secure.