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I think the part that's misleading is that with a loose/typical/casual reading it sounds like the bypass is at the application level as opposed to the OS/host level. By suggesting specific apps/services may be "bypassed" they fail to make it crystal clear to all readers that any breakage is likely app/service agnostic.

Of course this source is part of the same media that continually calls the election "hacked" despite there being no known technical irregularities with voting machines or vote recording or the actual election itself [^1] (that I'm aware of, at least). (Yes, computer systems were compromised, and data was exfiltrated from the DNC/related parties and released by foreign state actors. Unfortunately that is not "hacking an election." It's just plain and traditional information ops.)

So it's pretty par.

Mainstream news sources seem to continually get worse at reporting tech related stories, and I think there must be an even greater level of confusion when it comes to typical non-techinical individual citizens.

[^1]: Whether anybody is actually interested in actual elections running in auditable, effective, and functional way is apparently another question entirely, and the answer from most seems to be "nope."