commission, can't immediately establish that patch, a long process for adding patches to servers and they yash yated process in march and they don't actually do the system until july. so six months now in which a vul inability is public and actively being exploited and the system is not getting patched. >> these systems are fragile. thank you. so philip? [ applause ] >> thanks a lot. thank you very much for having me. it's an honor to share the podium with this distinguished group. so a lot of this has been covered already by andrew and kim, but the standard argues that our elections can't be hacked in the u.s. are some combination of physical security, you can't get access to devices, they're not connected to the internet, they're tested before election day, and the system is too decentralized. it's run by a bunch of individual election officials and individual counties, and jurisdictions. so it's a hard target. most of this has already been debunked by previous speakers, but physical security is securi. equipment has sleepovers in school gymnasiums and churches. there are lots of examples on