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California decertifies four e-voting companies

08/07/2007 SC Magazine

Summary
California's secretary of state has decertified four companies' voting machines for flawed application security and ruled that the companies' products will be required to comply with increased software security criteria for recertification.

The decision means that most voters in California will have to rely on paper ballots in the state's Feb. 5 presidential primaries. The state gave the manufacturers 30 days to develop plans for software security assurance of their systems' internal configuration and 45 days to propose a network security hardening plan. Ryan Berg, co-founder and chief scientist of Ounce Labs, a developer of software risk assessment products analyzed those developers weren't using core security principles for protection against security vulnerabilities.

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