Builders and Breakers: Partnering for Secure Elections
summary
A 2023 pilot gives vetted security researchers timed access to prototype voting hardware and finds mostly low‑risk bugs, more hardware tamper and deployment issues than easy remote exploits, and a surprising level of collaboration that quickly expands scope and builds trust over three days. Results appear in three published vendor reports under a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure model; next steps are longer tests, broader vendor participation, faster certification paths, and paid researcher engagement.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:05Trust between builders and breakers
- 3:16Vulnerability disclosure in election tech
- 5:51Need for election security event
- 10:04Prototype equipment selection
- 12:34Recruiting security researchers
- 16:32Trust between researchers and manufacturers
- 23:12Key findings from disclosure
- 28:07Next steps for security events
- 32:44Overcoming standardization obstacles
- 39:49Key takeaways
- 43:22Addressing questions from the audience
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