@mattblaze Where do you think opportunities lie for businesses to serve the election management sector?
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Replying to @ryaneshea
That seems like the wrong end of the problem to attack. What can we do to create an environment where counties are supported in a way that leads to better election management infrastructure and services?
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Replying to @mattblaze @ryaneshea
One interesting lesson from the 2016 election was that states were inundated with offers for free security services, and realized they were unable to tell snake oil from gold. So they turned down a bunch of free services.
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It makes sense. If you've never researched disclosure, does Synack sound more real than Cyvex? Is Cyvex a thing? I think I'm making that up.
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The FEC came up with a backdoor way to address that problem with offers of free services to campaigns. It's an FEC violation to offer campaigns free services to begin with - that was never on the table. But the solution introduced gatekeepers to the process...
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Note that you're talking now about campaign security, which is a different animal (with just as many claws) than election security. The evaluation problem is arguably even worse on the elections side, since the tools are never tested at scale outside an actual election.
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That's true and false. If you think about security only in terms of voting machines, that's totally true. But election security also involves all kinds of products that already exist: appsec, dnssec, guarding office networks... They've got websites, databases, etc.
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This is a point @mattblaze makes well, and I'm not disagreeing with you! But it is important not to rove back and forth across the different domains in this discussion, because it becomes a tangle. Campaign security, election systems, election security and so on all fit together.
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